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Building's name

Hydro-Québec Building

Other name: Siège Social d'Hydro Québec.

Location / address
75, boulevard René-Lévesque West
Montréal
Quebec, Canada

  Near Metro station Place-des-Arts

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Borough Downtown
Arrondissement Ville-Marie
Centre de l'Île

27 Floors(overground)
110 m
Architect


Gaston Gagnier  
Beginning of construction
1959

Year of construction (end)
1962

Building type
Skyscrapers

Last update:
2009-08-12

CodeIMTL 33
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Hydro-Québec Building

Picture by Alexis Hamel
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History and fact about this building
To understand the importance that had the construction of this building, we must take a look back in the 60ies with the famous slogan "Maîtres chez nous" from Liberal Jean Lessage.

Construction of the national electricity power company headquarters on this boulevard was putting at the same level Quebecois knowledge near Canadian institutions.

Several peoples find this building ugly or just ordinary but a zoom out is needed to evaluate the skyscrapers, the work of Gaston Gagnier, very modern with its curtains walls and a particular green.

This building is also known as the housing Prime Minister's office when it is in Montreal.

Hall wall sculptures of the building were made by Jean-Paul Mousseau.

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  Building who construction ends the same year (1962)
   Historical Milestones about Montreal, What did append the same year (1962)
    See section History of Montreal
  • The town of Rivière-des-Prairies is attached to Montreal
  • Opening of the Champlain bridge
  • Montreal's first underground tunnel between Place Ville-Marie and the Central Station
  Facts about Montreal Source ville.montreal.qc.ca    More statistics on Montreal
  • Montreal population: 1 812 723 in city and 3 426 350 with suburbs
  • There are four world class universities in Montreal
  • Montreal is receiving more snow falls than any other big city in the world

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