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News • News • 31 Aug 2022
Blanchette Architectes draw from urban typology to create a harmonious office concept for Vention in Montreal
Inspired by the form of the city, Blanchette Architectes transformed an old carpet factory building in Montreal into a new office space for industrial automation company Vention. Vention’s signature blue is integrated harmoniously throughout, including in the tinted glass of the windows in offices and other closed rooms.
Alex Lesage
The company already occupied a portion of the existing building, with the addition adding more than 15,000 square feet of office space over two levels. The expansion aims to foster a harmonious variety of functions and is conceived as a building within a building.
Alex Lesage
With high ceilings and a large open floor area, the architects were keen to avoid the feeling of... More
Project • By Beck Oser Architects • Community Centres
Transformation Parish Centre
The building of the parish property is a former farmhouse, consisting of living and economy part of the 19th century. It stands with its eastern façade directly on the historic walls of the church and therefore provides optimum conditions, to complement the church area as a parish center. The program includes a 90 m2 large parish hall with kitchen and storage room, a meeting room, locations for the youth, offices and an apartment.
A hall of this size requires a large intrusion into the structure of the building. The middle of the 20th century instead of the barn created concrete and brick structures had to be canceled and offers space in its new form for the room on the level of the church square and other larger rooms on th... More