The Palais de justice is a

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, Canada. It is located at 1 Notre-Dame Street East in the

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neighbourhood of the Ville-Marie borough. It was completed in 1971. Though located in the

historic district, it is an international style structure, featuring the outdoor sculpture ''Allegrocube.'' The black metal and granite building is adjacent to the

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square. It was designed by Montreal architects Pierre Boulva and Jacques David, whose other prominent Montreal projects included 500 Place D'Armes, Théâtre Maisonneuve, the

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and the Place-des-Arts, Atwater and Lucien-L'Allier metro stations.

''Allegrocube''

Created by

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in 1973, ''Allegrocube'' is a

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-shaped abstract sculpture outside the Palais, 2.4 m in height, made of bronze.

Older courthouses

The current Palais de justice de Montréal is the third building on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal to bear that name. The first was the Old Montreal Courthouse, now known as the municipal Édifice Lucien-Saulnier, designed by

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(as well as

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) and inaugurated in 1856. Construction on the second, now known as the

Édifice Ernest-Cormier Édifice Ernest-Cormier was the second courthouse in Montreal to bear the name Palais de justice de Montréal. It was built between 1922 and 1926, and designed by architects , Charles Jewett Saxe and Ernest Cormier. It was the first major commissi ...

and home to the

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, began in 1922.''Rue Notre-Dame East'', Old Montreal Web site
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''Allegrocube''

Older courthouses

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