{"id":1907,"date":"2009-01-06T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T22:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/01\/06\/heritage-gas-station-needs-a-new-vocation\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T17:51:12","slug":"heritage-gas-station-needs-a-new-vocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/06\/heritage-gas-station-needs-a-new-vocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage gas station needs a new vocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mtlweblog\/3181496622\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3326\/3181496622_e4fd78107e.jpg\" alt=\"Mies gas station\"><\/a> <em>Photo by Kate McDonnell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the ever-vigilant <a href=\"http:\/\/w5.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/\">Montreal City Weblog<\/a> noted that a unique gas station on Nun&#8217;s Island, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is now boarded up. Mies van der Rohe is the architect behind the Seagram Building in NYC, among <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe#Notable_works\">other monuments of modernist architecture<\/a>. He was also a design consultant on Toronto&#8217;s TD Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1968, the gas station in question was operated by Esso until last December. Today&#8217;s edition of Le Devoir<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2009\/01\/06\/225946.html\"> reports<\/a> that the <em>Conseil du Patrimoine<\/em> is beginning an official process to recognize the building, which could facilitate its preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Great architecture should last for centuries but our dependence on gasoline should not. So I figure that if we want to preserve this architecturally notable gas station (and there can&#8217;t be many in North America, although apparently Frank Lloyd Wright designed one in Minnesota) it&#8217;s going to need a new vocation.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it could be re-opened as a bike shop, with air pumps instead of gasoline? Anybody have another idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kate McDonnell Yesterday the ever-vigilant Montreal City Weblog noted that a unique gas station on Nun&#8217;s Island, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is now boarded up. Mies van der Rohe is the architect behind the Seagram Building in NYC, among other monuments of modernist architecture. 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