Photo by Taylor Noakes, a local picture-snapper and aficionado of Montreal’s history and design. We look forward to publishing more of his contributions in the coming weeks.
This photo gives us a glimpse inside Montreal’s Centre de Commerce Mondiale, looking West. The colourful block in the centre of the building is a piece of the Berlin Wall. This building was conceived as a horizontal skyscraper extending over an existing alley (Ruelle des Fortifications). Completed in 1991, the CCM integrates several existing heritage buildings with new construction. It connects the Underground City between Place d’Armes and the Old Port, and Square-Victoria and the Quartier International.
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Are the buildings on the sides used as offices or condos or what? I would hate living or working there, looking out onto that non-street from your window… very disorienting.
This place is gorgeous!
And the whole area around it too!!!
At least one building is a hotel. There are also a few shops. For the rest, I don’t know…
@brilliam
The buildings on the sides are used as office, many use the immediate space as “coursives”, semi-exterior corridor to access office space.
People actually love to work there.
It is a lot like the gallerias in Europe and is a very pleasant thing to look out at, with natural light, greenery and sculpture and pedestrian traffic in the “street” below.
I attended a book launch there when the building was new – it looks like a very successful development.
One of the nicest real estate financial fiascos in Montreal.
There’s a gorgeous reflecting pool and a piece of the Berlin Wall too.
This is part of a great underground walk starting at from Places Arts Metro station to the Mcgill Metro station, the long way!
Very nice gallery indeed. Too bad most Montrealers don’t even know of its existence! It is shocking how much lack of awareness there is among most Montrealers of the hidden gems in the city, such as this one.
As a non-native Montrealer, I always had a curiosity to explore and try to see every little nook and cranny. It is disappointing to see how most suburbaners barely leave their suburbs, and if they do, they go to a mall bigger than the one in their own suburb, or just to ste Catherine for shopping.