Exhibition of pictures about Montreal


We gathered among the 2000 images of architecture and city landscape, some cards which had other links between them. Here thus the section exhibitions. We propose you to see Montreal with different themes.

Thematic areas and neighborhoods
Architectural Styles
Urban Elements
Major developments
Building types
Squares and Parks
Thematic photos
Epoch / Period
Campus
Others

80 Virtual exhibitions

Thematic areas and neighborhoods

It is difficult to believe that the international district of Montréal was a vast parking a couple years ago. Several prices later the Victoria square find all his gloss thanks...

Of all the districts of Montreal, Little Italy is certainly one of most popular.

Girds between the boulevard St. Lawrence, Saint-Denis street and between Jean-Talon and...

Since several years the Montreal City helped by various institutions such as the Place of Arts, the Monument Nationale, Spectra, and the SAT tries to create in a left behind pa...

The Cité-jardin du tricentenaire (Aka The garden city of the tercentenary) is a residential project developed in a coop mode in the Rosemont neighborhood in the 1940s. The name co...
Golden Square Mile is located between the block formed by Pine Av / René-Lévesque and Guy / Bleury Street. This area covers approximately a square mile and is the reason of distr...

Crossed by the street of La Gauchetiere, the Montreal’s Chinatown is delimited by four monumental doors, hand made by Chinese workers in the Nineties whereas Mr. Bouques, well...

Multi-media district of Montreal is located in the old suburb of Récollets, in the square between the street La Commune, Bonaventure motorway, McGill Street and Saint-James Street...
Span over two boroughs, Plateau Mount-Royal and Ville-Marie, the small district of Milton-Park (given after the name of streets crossing his center) is an area offering advantages ...
Jean Drapeau Park (named since 2003) includes the Notre-Dame Island and St. Helene Island. Both islands were the scene of the universal exhibition in 1967. This park is formerly kn...

The Lachine Canal crosses the south-west of Montreal. Opened in 1824 it was expanded twice.

Today, the Canal is getting better every day. Abandoned factories ...

Montreal Gay Village is located on St. Catherine Street between St. Hubert Street and Papineau in South Central district. This sector is formerly center of francophone commerci...

Before being a large building project, Griffintown was an industrial district that saw birth of first large factories in Canada and before to be an industrial area it was a res...

The Old Port of Montreal is now a must see for tourists in Montreal. It has not always been this way. This place has been the first place of trade in the city. Bordering De La Comm...
The Namur Jean-Talon West district will undergo major changes over the coming years. Here are some pictures of this place....

Architectural Styles

Art Deco style was architectural mainstream style in Western countries from 1920 to 1940. This style was associated with prosperity after world war one in cities such as Miami, ...

Urban Elements

In downtown area of Montreal in borough Ville-Marie close to the subway station Places-des-Arts, two enormous buildings are empty since their expropriation, more than 3 years ag...

Major developments

Montreal’s underground city is the biggest underground pedestrian network in the world. Construction started in the sixties with Ville-Marie place connected with the central s...

This virtual exhibition of pictures focuses on underground alleys and spaces of the Underground Montreal....

Building types

It was a time when people had to get out theirs houses to get amused. Montreal being a very alive city, it had to have a batch of theatre. The choice was there: musicals, plays, or...
Several master peace of Montreal architecture did not survive through time. Because of fires or because they were simply left behind to be destroyed. Many also became useless and f...
It was a time where Montreal was the industrial and financial center of Canada. Many Skyscrapers built at the beginning of the century testify so. Since the first Skyscrape...

Most public libraries in Montreal are located in buildings with a very interesting architecture. Whether they are in historical buildings that served as city hall or church or i...

The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to allow manufacturers to comply with standards for energy efficie...
With four universities and affiliated superior school, Montreal is definitely a scholarship city. This gave us the idea of grouping in this exhibition, residences for students from...
This virtual exhibition contain house designed by architects for themselves.

Squares and Parks

Mont-Royal Park is much more than a simple park; it’s Montreal lung. At the end of 1870’s, Montreal’ town council decides to buy land necessary to the construction of a large...
The place d’armes of Montreal is by far one of oldest point of Montreal and also one having evolved the most during centuries. Place d’armes has seen Ville-Marie born and grow ...

Square Victoria has a very interesting history. The occupation of this place has changed several times over decades and many buildings that have succeeded around the square. ...

Thematic photos

The Lafontaine Park is one of the oldest public parks of Montreal. Located in the middle of the chic Plateau Mount-Royal, it was named after Louis Hyppolite Lafontaine, a famous...

Each year more than 10 million tourists or visitor come into Montreal city. Some comes for business when others are coming on holiday. Among the 3000 pages of building and city ...

In recent years, many sectors add very interesting night lighting for our greatest pleasure. Whether the visual signature of the Quartier des Spectacles or “Old Montreal in Li...

Epoch / Period

Montreal was established under French regime in 1642 but did not stay under French power for a long time: less than 120 years. From this short period remain some buildings to te...

Campus

Located in downtown area of Montreal bordering Mount-Royal, McGill College is one of the largest universities in Canada with more than 30.000 students. It is also one of most famou...
Since its inauguration in 1969, the Université du Québec à Montréal has never stop to shape the urban grid of Montreal city. Located in the heart of the Latin District, the UQA...
At the beginning, University of Montreal was just a branch of Laval University. The catholic clergy controlling education, mainly located in the city of Quebec at the time, saw fro...
The Concordia University is the latest to open in the city of Montreal. This english institution is a fusion of the Sir George Williams school (1926) and Loyola College located in ...

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