By Staff | Last updated : 12/Dec/2012 15:00
Montreal’s unique history is reflected in its architecture.
A city that is heterogeneous to the core, incorporating North American
and various European styles and architectural
accents, Montreal can be viewed as a compact laboratory of urban form.
It is particularly interesting to see how the city managed to “layer” buildings of
different eras, representing not just different architectural styles, but also
drastically different urban planning philosophies. In many of Montreal’s quarters,
post-modernist creations are woven into an urban tissue of elegant
19th-century buildings, low-rise housing, and modernist public spaces.
Modern architecture
is of particular interest as the city went through a dramatic
and form-changing period between the decades of the 1950s and 1980s. It is during this era, corresponding to the rise in the city's international stature, that many of Montreal’s
iconic projects were undertaken (and many monumental urban planning mistakes made).
Showing 24 places of interest:
- Notre-Dame Basilica (Basilique Notre-Dame)
110 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1T2 - Habitat 67
2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3R6 - Biosphere (Biosphère)
160 Chemin du Tour-de-L'Isle, Montreal, Quebec - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal)
1380 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec - Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920 Rue Baile, Montreal, Quebec - Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History
350 Place Royale, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3Y5 - Marché Bonsecours (Bonsecours Market)
350 Rue St-Paul Est, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1H2 - Place Ville-Marie
1 Place Ville-Marie, Montreal, Quebec - Tour de la Bourse
800 Square Victoria, Montreal, Quebec H4Z 1A9 - Montreal World Trade Centre
- Château Champlain
1 Place du Canada, Montreal, Quebec - L’Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec
3535 Rue Saint-Denis, Montreal, Quebec H2X 3P1 - Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mont Royal
- Silo No 5
- Westmount Square
- Le Cartier
- Palais des Congrès
1001 Place Jean-Paul Riopelle, Montreal, Quebec - 1250 René-Lévesque (La Tour IBM-Marathon)
1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, Montreal, Quebec - Nelson’s Column (Colonne Nelson)
- Hôtel Rasco
281 Rue Saint-Paul Est, Montreal, Quebec - Old Custom House
- Banque de Montréal
119 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montreal, Quebec - Esplanade Ernest-Cormier (Ernest Cormier Esplanade)
- Grande Bibliothèque
475 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Est, Montreal, Quebec H2L 5C4
