{"id":576,"date":"2008-02-04T02:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=576"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:41","slug":"taking-care-of-montreals-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/04\/taking-care-of-montreals-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to not screw up Montreal’s schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Just as it prepares to invest $140 million in upgrading its schools, the Commission scolaire de Montr\u00e9al, the city’s largest French school board, is moving to protect its 250 schools from misguided renovations. A new guide outlines the variety of architecture found in the commission’s schools and the steps that need to be taken to maintain their integrity. Le Devoir has more<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 2000, la commission scolaire montr\u00e9alaise avait confi\u00e9 \u00e0 des experts de l’\u00c9cole d’architecture de l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, notamment du programme de ma\u00eetrise en conservation du patrimoine b\u00e2ti, le soin de dresser le bilan des interventions architecturales effectu\u00e9es au fil des ans sur ses \u00e9coles. Le r\u00e9sultat \u00e9tait plus ou moins reluisant, d\u00e9montrant que plusieurs joyaux architecturaux avaient souffert de r\u00e9novations malhabiles, de d\u00e9molition partielle ou d’ajouts effectu\u00e9s sans aucun \u00e9gard au style architectural original. <\/p>\n

(…)<\/p>\n

De style classique, l’\u00e9cole du quartier C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme un des b\u00e2timents les plus remarquables de la CSDM (selon une \u00e9tude patrimoniale), a vu ses fen\u00eatres tronqu\u00e9es du tiers par des plafonds surbaiss\u00e9s, son couronnement et son bandeau de pierre d\u00e9truits et remplac\u00e9s par du clin d’aluminium et de la brique d\u00e9pareill\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

D’autres joyaux du parc immobilier scolaire, dont l’\u00c9cole FACE (1914), de style classique, et l’\u00c9cole Le Plateau, de style Art D\u00e9co, ont vu leurs entr\u00e9es d\u00e9par\u00e9es par des portes d’entr\u00e9e en aluminium. \u00abContrairement aux \u00e9glises, il s’agit d’architecture vernaculaire. Mais plusieurs de ces \u00e9coles comportent des d\u00e9tails architecturaux d’int\u00e9r\u00eat patrimonial qui m\u00e9ritent d’\u00eatre conserv\u00e9s\u00bb, explique Mme D\u00e9om.<\/p>\n

En effet, certaines \u00e9coles, dont l’\u00e9cole Saint-Ambroise et son annexe, dans le quartier Rosemont, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 dessin\u00e9es par les architectes de renom L. R. Montbriand et Ernest Cormier. On doit \u00e0 ce dernier plusieurs monuments phares de Montr\u00e9al, dont le pavillon central de l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. L’\u00e9cole FACE a quant \u00e0 elle \u00e9t\u00e9 con\u00e7ue par les architectes qui ont r\u00e9alis\u00e9 le Mus\u00e9e des beaux arts de Montr\u00e9al. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The building that now houses FACE, a bilingual creative school managed jointly by the CSDM and the English Montreal School Board, was built as the High School of Montreal<\/a> in 1892. It’s probably my favourite school in Montreal. What’s yours?<\/p>\n

Thanks to reader Matt Brett for alerting us to this story.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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