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

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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

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, Théâtre Maisonneuve, the

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

''Allegrocube''

Created by Charles Daudelin 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 Frederick Preston Rubidge) and inaugurated in 1856. Construction on the second, now known as the

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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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