Montreal architecture

Espace Montmorency is a mixed-use development located next to the Montmorency metro station in Laval, a city in Quebec, Canada. Designed by Montreal-based Sid Lee Architecture, this high-density project has its origins in a building blocks principle, which allows vertical and horizontal phasing. An example of transit-oriented development, Espace Montmorency maximises 1,400,000-square-foot of residential, office, hotel, and commercial space within walking distance of public transport. Its massing creates a series of terraces, maximising the amount of green space. David Boyer David Boyer   Transit-oriented development Espace Montmorency is built on a previously unoccupied 318,000-square-foot plot of land. The proximity of Pl... More

A century-old duplex in Montreal's Mile-end, abandoned for several years, has been extended with a large rooftop apartment and a backyard bedroom wing on each floor. The project aims to answer the delicate and sensitive question of “architectural intervention on modest heritage. ". How to densify in a gentle way by adding new housing, while retaining the authenticity of the original design and the urban landscape of the street and the lane. How to achieve this in a dialogue between the existing and the new, without one speaking louder than the other, while maintaining the modesty that forms a district of the city. Raphael Thibodeau Raphael Thibodeau Raphael Thibodeau The answer for the project was to lay a white veil o... More

Renovation of a single-family row residence, typical of the Notre-Dame-de-Grace/Cote-des-Neiges district, on the edge of the city of Westmount. Sensitive intervention which consisted of a reconfiguration of the original spaces in order to allow an urban family life for the young family with 2 children. Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Search for fluidity, lightness, natural lighting and space for children and parents. Objective to preserve the atmosphere of the original house. Use of materials, artisanal technique (staircase, revisited shaker style kitchen cabinet) and texture (exposed brick, ceramic and slate of the fireplace) in order to mediate with the origi... More

Reconnecting Montreal’s city’s historic neighbourhood with its downtown core,  the Place des Montréalaises bridges the sunken Ville-Marie Expressway with through a universally accessible inclined plane of a public plaza. Prominently displaying a floating urban meadow, it offers a tributary bouquet of 21 species of plants which pay homage to 21 women who have shaped Montreal throughout the city’s history.  Lemay Creating a poetic and inclusive experience, the names of these women also mark the plane’s staircase, and become the conceptual material of the Place des Montréalaises, where names are fragmented into letters which adorn a central steel cylinder sculpture to include women of the p... More