The Jean Noël Desmarais Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montreal, Quebec - Architecture Prizes on Waymarking.com

Project Title: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Alternate Titles: Jean-Noel Desmarais Pavilion; Musée des beaux arts

Description:

Safdie designed this major expansion to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which doubled the exhibition space of the existing museum and added housing, retail and restaurant facilities, administrative offices, and curatorial workshops. Design challenges for this project included the need to integrate the new museum into the surrounding context, while responding creatively to the demands of a difficult site.

The final design preserved the five-storey brick and stone apartment building which occupied half of the Sherbrooke Street frontage, a row of Victorian rowhouses on Crescent Street, and the alleys located at the centre of the site. The addition is divided into three pavilions and its main entrance features a great sloping glass roof which allows the sun to penetrate the public foyer and provides transparency for visitors to see all gallery levels and connections.

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Architect: Moshe Safdie Prize received: AIA Gold Medal In what year: 1991 Website about the Architect: [Web Link] Website about the building: [Web Link]

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