Tour de la Bourse
| Stock Exchange Tower | |
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| Alternative names | Place Victoria Stock Exchange Tower |
| General information | |
| Type | Office |
| Architectural style | International |
| Location | 800 Square Victoria Montreal,Quebec,Canada |
| Coordinates | 45°30′02″N73°33′42″W/ 45.500611°N 73.56175°W |
| Completed | 1964 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 194 m (636 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 48 |
| Floor area | 95,026 m2(1,022,850 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 26 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Luigi Moretti Greenspoon, Freedlander, Dunne, Plachta & Kryton |
| Other information | |
| Public transit access |   atSquare-Victoria–OACI station |
| Website | |
| groupepetra | |
| References | |
| [1][2][3] | |
TheStock Exchange Tower(French:Tour de la Bourse) is a 48-storeyskyscraperinMontreal,Quebec,Canada.It is located at the intersection ofVictoria SquareandSaint Jacques Streetin theInternational Quarter.It is connected by theunderground cityto theSquare-Victoria-OACI Metro Station.
When completed in 1964, the tower was the tallest building in Canada, a title it held until surpassed by theToronto-Dominion Centrein 1967. It is currently thethird tallestin Montreal and thetwenty-fifthtallest building in the country. The Tour de la Bourse was designed byLuigi MorettiandPier Luigi Nerviand is considered to be of theInternational Style.It is one of very few buildings in Canada to have its ownpostal code prefix,H4Z.
History and development[edit]
The original project, conceived during theExpo 67-era economic boom, called for three identical towers arrayed in a triangle. It was scaled back to two towers flanking each side of the central core. Ultimately a single tower was built, due to financial constraints;[4]the Hôtel Delta Centre-Ville[5]was later built on the site of what was to be the second identical tower thus forming Place Victoria. Following the improvement and restoration ofSquare Victoriato its original configuration in 2002, Place Victoria is now a centrepiece of the newQuartier Internationaldowntown area.
The tower itself is considered by many to be a masterpiece of the International style of skyscraper design. Its façade, fully renovated in 1995, features abronze-tintedanodized aluminiumcurtain wall,forming a strong contrast with the slightly slantedpre-cast concretecolumns at the four corners, giving the whole a subtly convex aspect. It is divided into three roughly equal blocks bymechanical floorswhose corners are recessed in anoctagonalshape, creating small open-air interstices behind the columns at these levels. One couple ofperegrine falconshas been nesting inside the 32nd floor recess since 1984.
This 190 m (620 ft), 48-story building was the world's tallestreinforced concretetower until the completion ofLake Point TowerinChicagoin 1968, and the tallest building in Canada until the completion ofToronto-Dominion Centrein 1967.
The building's anchor tenant is still theMontreal Exchangeon floors 3 and 4. The national and international law firmFasken Martineauoccupies six floors as well as space for services on the ground floor. The building ismanagedby Magil Laurentian Realty Corporation. In August 2004 Jolina Capital, owned byLino Saputowho is also head of foodmaker Saputo Foods, acquired a majority stake in the building. Property management is still handled by Magil Laurentian, who retains a minority stake. In 2018, the owner of the building is Groupe Mach.[6]
Events[edit]
- On February 13, 1969, theFront de libération du Québecset off a bomb at the Stock Exchange, injuring twenty-seven people. No one was killed.
- On April 7, 2005, around 150 students occupied the ground floor of the building to block access to the elevators, as part of a strategy of economic disruption during the2005 Quebec student strike.They were scattered byriot policetwo hours later; one arrest was made.
- In March 2010, the Tour de la Bourse was used by artistAude Moreaufor her workSortir,in which the room lights in the upper levels of the tower were used to spell out the word "Sortir" across its façades.[7]
Tenants[edit]
- Airports Council International[8]
- Autorité des marchés financiers[9]
- Canoe.ca[10]
- Dexia[11]
- Dunton Rainville, Lawyers and Notaries[12]
- Royal Bank of Canada[13]
- Export Development Canada[14]
- Fasken Martineau[15]
- TMX GroupMontreal Exchange[16]
- IATA[17]
- eStruxture Data Centers[18]
- Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP[19]
- World Anti-Doping Agency[20]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^"Emporis building ID 112387".Emporis.Archived fromthe originalon January 7, 2016.
- ^"Tour de la Bourse".SkyscraperPage.
- ^Tour de la BourseatStructurae
- ^Rémillard, Francois (1990).Montreal architecture: A Guide to Styles and Buildings.Montreal: Meridian Press. p. 191.ISBN978-0-929058-02-3.
- ^Evo Square Victoria, since 2014
- ^groupemach
- ^"The Montreal High Lights Festival".Festival Montréal en lumière. 2009. Archived fromthe originalon 5 March 2010.Retrieved6 October2010.
- ^Airports Council International|Contact Us
- ^General Contact Information - Autorité des marchés financiers
- ^Quebecor|A full line of Web-based services Contact Us - Export Development Canada
- ^Our other entities - Our premises - DexiaArchived2012-07-29 at theWayback Machine
- ^"Law Firm".
- ^"Branch and ATM Locator - RBC Royal Bank".
- ^"Contact us | EDC".
- ^"Archived copy".Archived fromthe originalon 2012-06-14.Retrieved2012-07-24.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Montreal|Offices|Fasken Martineau - ^Contact Us|TMX GroupArchived2013-02-04 atarchive.today
- ^"IATA - Home".
- ^"Home".eStruxture.
- ^"RSS – Robinson Sheppard Shapiro".rsslex(in French).Retrieved2018-10-30.
- ^"Headquarters".
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