1938-2008
Cette ancienne demeure bourgeoise qui fut utilisée par l’association zioniste au cours des années 1930 et 1940 fut démolie vers 1949 afin d’être remplacée par la piscine Garfield-Weston. Un pavillon du collège Royal Victoria Le pavillon de musique de l’université McGill occupe aujourd’hui cet emplacement.
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Domage, c’était une belle maison qui a été remplacée apr cette laideur…
The building there now is actually the New Music Building of McGill University. (Royal Victoria College is part of McGill). Details are at http://www.mcgill.ca/music/schulich/building/
Yep, the caption is embarrassingly inaccurate: it’s one of three buildings that comprise the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and the site has never had anything to do with the Royal Victoria College (historically it was adjacent to these buildings, but now it’s on University street).
That old house…it wouldn’t be in good company today, even though we all cry about losing the once idyllic Sherbrooke Street. To the new building’s credit, it’s much more interesting than the swimming pool that was there. The space requirements for the Schulich School next door (my alma mater) were beyond pressing, and this building was the best they could come up with after more than 10 years of planning and consultations.
The building has numerous uses for its footprint, and many features are state of the art. It includes:
-a concert hall
-the entire administrative division of the Schulich School (as well as most of the staff offices)
-the Marvin Duchow Music Library (on three floors)
-the “Multi-Media Room,” among the best recording studios in the world (entirely underground and supported by vibration-damping springs)
-The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)
-an opera rehearsal studio
-and two reception lounges (or lecture halls)
This replaced a small, dirty, and poorly used swimming pool and a parking lot to the rear. Between the pool and the lot was small patch of grass occasionally used by the neighborhood’s dog owners. Most of the time it sat empty.
Le nouveau pavillon de musique de McGill a été construit il y a quelques années, donc on peut difficilement le blâmer pour la démolition de cette maison en 1949. Le pavillon a été dessiné par la firme Saucier+Perrotte, parmi les meilleurs architectes à Montréal. Une belle réussite.