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Westmount Square Review
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Westmount Square
- Address: Corner of av. Wood and blvd. de Maisonneuve, Westmount, Montreal, QC | Map It
- Phone: 514/932-0211
- Category: Architectural Sites
- Location: Westmount
Fodor's Review:
You be the judge: were the skylights cut into the terrace of Westmount Square in 1990 a desecration, as the architectural community claimed at the time, or a necessary step to bring some light into the gloomy, high-end shopping mall beneath? What infuriated the architects is that the square -- a complex of three towers, a two-story office building, and a shopping concourse -- was the work of the sainted Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe and should be left untouched by mere mortals lest Van der Rohe's vision of pure forms rising from a flat plain be blighted. But Van der Rohe himself showed some flexibility in the design of this building. For one thing, he clothed it in dark granite instead of his beloved travertine marble -- a sensible concession to Montréal's harsh climate.
- Cost: Free
- Metro: Atwater
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