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View from the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth (commonly called The Queen Elizabeth Hotel; French: Le Reine Elizabeth).
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
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1250 Rene-Levesque; Height (to roof): 653 feet; Height (to top of antenna): 756 feet; Floors: 47; Built 1988 – 1992; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, architects.
The Cathedral-minor basilica of Mary, Queen of the World (French: Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Behind is the Sun Life Insurance Co. building. Built in 1931, it was the largest structure in the British Empire. During World War II, the basement vaults of the Sun Life Building were the secret hiding place of the Crown Jewels of England and the gold bullion of the Bank of England.
Adjacent is the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel.
(wikipedia.com)
...a.k.a. Le 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque, as seen from below, just across de la Gauchetière street, near the corner of Stanley.
From Wikipedia:
The 1250 René-Lévesque's architecture is based on another skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the 51-story Westend Straße 1 in Frankfurt, Germany. The design is partly dictated by the building's position at the western edge of the downtown core, with its shape forming a boundary between the commercial center and the residential periphery. As such it has a markedly rectangular footprint, being very elongated on a north-south axis. Like its Frankfurt counterpart, emphasis is given to the east and west façades, which have opposed yet complementary appearances that strongly relate to the urban area they face.
The modern-style western façade, facing the residential periphery, is a straight granite-clad wall covered with square windows, with irregular setbacks creating the appearance of several superimposed slabs. Conversely the postmodern-style eastern façade, facing the commercial center, is dominated by an outwardly-curved glass curtain wall that extends past the southern edge, creating a suspended vertical "fin" that emphasizes the structure's impression of lightness and thrust. The narrow north wall recesses in a series of setbacks, allowing the building to keep its human scale at street level. At the lowest setback, the 4-floor atrium includes a bamboo-planted winter garden, and a food court on a mezzanine. At the building top, a spire/antenna is integrated to the north walls of the last few floors and extends 31 metres beyond the mechanical penthouse above the 47th floor.
The observation deck atop 1 Place Ville Marie offers a nice view of Downtown Montreal and other nearby neighborhoods.
I did an Autostitch composite shot of the curving east side facade, facing Stanley Street, a couple of weeks ago, here's the same thing for the "overlapping rectangles" west side facade, facing Drummond Street.
I can't say that I was really taking note of what cars were parked on the Drummond Street side of the parking lot facing the Bell Centre (Centre Bell), from where I took the source photos for this Autostitch, but I think that red Ford Focus makes a superb foreground anchor, adding a bright dash of crimson red to overwhelmingly blue and grey surroundings.
Telus Tower; Height: 445 feet; Floors: 34; Built 1959 – 62; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, architects.
View from the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth (commonly called The Queen Elizabeth Hotel; French: Le Reine Elizabeth).
Ah, it was so refreshing being back in Montreal again for one afternoon, since I got to take new pictures where I can play around with skyscrapers significantly taller than Ottawa's Place de Ville Tower C in Autostitch.
Some of the source photos used this Autostitch composite may also appear individually in this photostream later on.
The Montreal Sheraton has a tendency to show up in the background of a lot of my shots, like this Autostitch shot of the CIBC Building or this shot of Le Crystal de la Montagne luxury apartment/condominium building (which itself is in this shot, in the background at the left), but here's an Autostitch shot where it is, for once, the centre of attention.
This 38-storey hotel was finished in 1982 and, at 118 metres, is only the 23rd tallest building in Montreal, according to Emporis, but it seems taller than some of the higher-up buildings on the list because of its slender profile.
The observation deck atop 1 Place Ville Marie offers a nice view of Downtown Montreal and other nearby neighborhoods.
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
Built in stages from 1912 to 1931, at the time of its completion, it was the largest skyscraper in the British Empire in terms of floor area, though it wasn't the tallest. It stands at 122 metres, and has 24 storeys.
My father worked there in the late 1970s and early 1980s until December 1983, when Bell Canada moved his division to the new Tour Bell.
You can see Place Ville Marie behind it.
On Dorchester (Rene-Levesque), a police officer had pulled over a motorcyclist, for some reason.
The Cathedral-minor basilica of Mary, Queen of the World (French: Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The observation deck atop 1 Place Ville Marie offers a nice view of Downtown Montreal and other nearby neighborhoods. Here is Tour de la Bourse, which was briefly the tallest building in Canada in the mid-1960s.
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
René Lévesque (1922 – 1987) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec (1960–1966), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party, and the 23rd Premier of Quebec. He was the first Quebec political leader since Confederation to attempt, through a referendum, to negotiate the political independence of Quebec. [Source: Wikipedia]
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
A view of the western part of downtown Montreal, looking "east" (according to the Montreal street grid, where "east" is really north-east), taken from the sixth or seventh floor of Lasalle College/Collège Inter-Dec on Fort Street.
...overlooking the construction site where the the E-Commerce Plaza (Cité du Commerce Électronique) now stands.
This view was from Dorchester (boul. Rene-Levesque), near Lucien L'Allier. You wouldn't be able to see much of the IBM-Marathon tower from this vantage point now, since construction was finished some three years ago.
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;