Westmount Square is a residential and office complex located in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. There are two residential apartment buildings and two office buildings. These towers sit atop an underground shopping centre consisting of thirty-five shops. It is located between

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and

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and between Wood Avenue and Greene Avenue. It is connected to

Place Alexis Nihon Alexis Nihon Complex (''French: Complexe Alexis Nihon'') is a building complex in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada (on the border with Westmount), consisting of a shopping centre, two office towers, and a residential building. It is named af ...

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, and the Atwater Metro station by a tunnel. The complex was designed by

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloy ...

in the International style. Construction began in 1964 and the complex opened on December 13, 1967. The exterior facade features curtain walls, and is made of black

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and

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windows. It was modeled on Lake Shore Drive Apartments in

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. The office building, also known as Tower 1, has 22 floors and stands tall. The other office building has 2 floors and is known as the Tower 4 Pavilion; it was formerly the Eastern Airlines Building. The two residential towers each have 21 floors, and stand tall. Westmount Square's shopping concourse houses boutiques and art galleries, with about one-third of the space reserved for private for-profit health clinics.

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s were installed on the roof of the shopping concourse in 1990, which led to criticism among architectural preservationists.

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