500 Place d'Armes is an
International style
The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...
building on the historic
Place d'Armes
Place d'Armes () is a Town square, square of the Old Montreal quarter of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada anchored by Maisonneuve Monument, a monument in memory of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, Paul de Chomedey, founder of Montreal. Buildings that s ...
square
In geometry, a square is a regular polygon, regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal si ...
in
Old Montreal
Old Montreal (, ) is a historic List of neighbourhoods in Montreal, neighbourhood within the List of municipalities in Quebec, municipality of Montreal in the province of Quebec, Canada. Home to the Old Port of Montreal, the neighbourhood is b ...
quarter of
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, Canada.
Completed in 1968 as the
Banque Canadienne Nationale
The Banque Canadienne Nationale (; ) was a Canadian bank that existed from 1873 to 1979. The bank was founded in Montreal in 1873 as the Banque d'Hochelaga and began operations the following year. In 1924, the bank renamed itself the Banque Canad ...
tower, it is
Montreal's 17th tallest building, at 133 m (435 ft), 32 storeys.
It was designed by Montreal architects
Pierre Boulva and
Jacques David, whose other prominent Montreal projects included the
Palais de justice de Montréal,
Théâtre Maisonneuve, the
Dow Planetarium
The Dow Planetarium (later renamed the Montreal Planetarium) is a decommissioned public planetarium located at Chaboillez Square southeast of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It closed permanently in October 2011. A new facility, the Rio Tint ...
and the
Place-des-Arts,
Atwater and
Lucien-L'Allier metro stations.
When it was built in the late 60s, this building was the subject of heated talk. According to one source the building disfigured its part of Old Montreal, overshadowing all of the architecture of Old Montreal surrounding it.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Montreal
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Montreal, ranking skyscrapers in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by height.
There are currently 71 buildings and structures in Montreal greater than 100 m (328 ft). The tallest building ...
References
External links
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Buildings and structures in Old Montreal
Bank buildings in Canada
Office buildings completed in 1968
Skyscraper office buildings in Montreal
International style architecture in Canada
National Bank of Canada
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