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RÉSO, commonly referred to as the Underground City (French: La ville souterraine), is the name applied to a series of interconnected office towers, hotels, shopping centres, residential and commercial complexes, convention halls, universities and performing arts venues that form the heart of Montreal's central business district, colloquially referred to as Downtown Montreal.
View of Montreal from McTavish Street.The architecture of Montreal is characterized by a wide variety of architectural styles. The architecture of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is characterized by the juxtaposition of the old and the new and a wide variety of architectural styles, the legacy of two successive colonizations by the French, the British, and the close presence of modern architecture to ...
Place Ville Marie (French pronunciation: [plas vil maʁi], abbr. PVM) is a large office and shopping complex skyscraper in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza.
The building’s architecture combines postmodern and neo-modern styles. Its east and west facades differ distinctly: the west facade is a granite-clad wall with square windows and irregular setbacks, facing the residential periphery, while the east facade features a curved glass curtain wall facing the city center, giving a light, suspended effect.
For a period in 1987, the cathedral was supported on stilts while footings for the underground mall, Promenades Cathédrale, were excavated. This project allowed for the linkage of the eastern and western branches of Montreal's underground city, connecting the Eaton's store (subsequently Complexe Les Ailes) and The Bay's Henry Morgan Building.
The Montreal Metro (French: Métro de Montréal, pronounced [metʁo də mɔ̃ʁeal]) is a rubber-tired underground rapid transit system serving Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, during the tenure of Mayor Jean Drapeau .
Victoria sur le Parc is located at the corner of Boulevard Robert-Bourassa and Rue Saint-Jacques in the northwest corner of the Cité du Multimédia neighbourhood of Montreal. The building is located within 300 metres of Victoria Square , Place Bonaventure , Gare Centrale , and the eastbound entrances to the underground portion of Autoroute 720 .
Provencher_Roy works through a transdisciplinary strategy that links architecture, urban design and town planning, interior design and landscape design. [14] According to the firm, its site-specific approach involves the exploration and analysis of a project’s context: specifically, the physical, cultural, geographical, historical and economic constraints of a site.