Westmount Square

Montreal, Canada

Access unknown

We could not determine this from the source data.

Find out more

ReferencearchINFORM↗

Westmount Square is a residential and office complex designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1967 in Westmount, Quebec. The International Style ensemble comprises two residential towers of twenty-one floors each, two office buildings (the taller standing eighty-three metres), and an underground shopping centre with thirty-five shops. The facades are clad in black anodized aluminium and smoked glass curtain walls, modelled on van der Rohe's Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago. Located between Sainte Catherine Street West and De Maisonneuve Boulevard, the complex connects via tunnel to Place Alexis Nihon, Dawson College, and the Atwater Metro station. The shopping concourse, which includes boutiques, galleries, and health clinics, received skylights in 1990—a modification that drew criticism from architectural preservationists.