Images & Buildings of Montréal 
1 Place Ville-Marie / René-Lévesque Ouest
On a clear day, a light beam passes through the sky of Montreal at regular intervals. This light comes from the rotating huge light at the top of the Place Ville Marie.
Place Ville Marie has been built above the CN railroad tunnel. see this old image. The tunnel was a real scar in the urban face of Montreal because a long part was simply trench .
Underground shopping mall connected to the central station gave birth to the Montreal underground city. It is interesting to point out that interior mall was not foreseen in the original plans of the project. This is the face of the increasing popularity of suburbs malls that forced designers to react. The project designers were surely ignoring then the magnitude that took pedestrian network connecting various buildings of downtown Montreal.
With the CIBC Tower, those skyscrapers were responsible of the downtown and business district to move from Old Montreal to St. Catherine Street. Place Ville Marie is still among the largest office space in Canada. The building has:
This building is owned by the SITQ (Caisse de dépôt et placement) to 50%
Webb & Company Knap, which finance and manage the project. In 1958 they signed the lease that would ensure the viability of the project: A 99-year lease for the rental of 20% of the building will be signed by James Muir, chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Companies who finance this project had several requests for Montreal. One was the widening of surrounding streets. The necessary expropriations cost $ 8 million and lead to the disappearance of several historic buildings including the famous St James Club.
In 1959 estimated construction costs to $ 45 million. Now Montreal city Tax department evaluate Place Ville-Marie complex to 616,000,000
Constructor and other companies involved in construction:
Webb & Knapp
This building is among 10 tallest Montreal's skyscrapers.
Gare Centrale, Place Ville-Marie Area
This building is located in the «Secteur de valeur patrimoniale exceptionnelle Gare Centrale, Place Ville-Marie» AKA : "Area of outstanding heritage value Gare Centrale, Place Ville-Marie".
Downtown
This hotel was built in the major development work undertaken by the Canadian National Railway to occupy the space around his Central Train Station which is located just behind. The Queen Eliz...
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France Vanlaethem, Danielle Doucet, Sophie Mankowski, Conrad Gallant, 2008
Les Années 60: Montréal voit grand
Centre Canadien d'architecture, 2004
A Concise History of Canadian Architecture
Harold Kalman, 2000
Les bâtisseurs du sciècle
Pierre Turgeon, 1997
L'Architecture de Montréal
Pierre-Richard Bisson, 1990
Architecture du XXe siècle au Québec 
Claude Bergeron, 1989
Near subway station Bonaventure Other name
1 de la Place Ville-Marie
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Architecture - skyscrapers
Building achieved the same year (1962)
DowntownParc-ExtensionSaint-LaurentAhuntsic / CartiervilleNuns' islandNDGLa Petite-PatrieCôte-des-NeigesPlateau Mont-RoyalRosemontVilleray / Saint-MichelHochelaga-Maisonneuve Historical Milestones about Montreal, What did append the same year (1962) See History of Montreal Section
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