Place Ville Marie

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People:

Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise (creator)
Arcop Associates (associated architectural firm)
I.M. Pei & Associates (architect)
Webb & Knapp (Canada) Ltd. (client)
Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise (archive creator)

Title:

Place Ville Marie

Date:

1958-1964

Level of archival description:
File 2

Extent and medium:

928 drawings
13 reprographic copies
1 panel

Scope and content:
File documents Place Ville Marie, Montréal, Québec, a large urban development project consisting of an open plaza, a 43-storey cruciform-shaped aluminum-clad office tower (Royal Bank of Canada Building), an underground pedestrian walkway with shopping promenades and cinemas, and two smaller commercial / office buildings that bordered the plaza - a 3-storey building on Cathcart St. and a 13-storey building fronting Mansfield St.

File contains design development, working, and shop drawings, and a presentation panel produced between 1958-64. The design development drawings include drawings from the I.M. Pei office in New York (indicated by N.Y. after the drawing number), and the office of the Montreal architects (indicated by an M after the drawing number).

Reference number:

AP137.D2

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series were likely kept in their original order when they were processed.

Location:

Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada

Related units of description:

There are related documents in project Extension to Cathcart Buildings, Place Ville Marie (AP137.D36).

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