Édifices détruits :: Demolished buildings

[MTLskyline]

Hotel Laurentien (1948-1978)

L'hôtel Laurentien était un hôtel de 1000 chambres situé au coin du boulevard Dorchester et de la rue Peel, face au square Dominion. Construit en 1948, il fût démolit en 1978 pour être remplacé par une tour de 27 étages, l'édifice La Laurentienne. Le building fût dessiné par Charles Davis Goodman, le même architecte qui conçu les plans de l'hôpital Juif de Montréal ainsi que du fameux Ben's Delicatessen, lui aussi malheureusement démoli en 2008.

http://montrealtaxi.blogspot.ca/2011...tien-1954.html

The Laurentian Hotel was a 1000-room hotel on Dorchester Street, now René Lévesque Boulevard, in Montreal. The hotel was built in 1948 and demolished in 1978. The building was designed by Charles Davis Goodman, who was the architect of a number of prominent Streamline Moderne structures in the city, including the Jewish General Hospital and Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant.

At the time, it was the largest hotel ever demolished in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentian_Hotel

1945-2011 (avant le Hotel Laurentien)

1945-2012 by guil3433, on Flickr

1947-2011

1947-2011 by guil3433, on Flickr

1947-2008

1947-2008 by guil3433, on Flickr

1950-2008

Around 1950-2008 by guil3433, on Flickr

1954

http://montrealtaxi.blogspot.ca/2011...tien-1954.html

1962-2008

1962-2008 by guil3433, on Flickr

1966

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46591720@N07/4557997212/

1967

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...anada_1967.jpg


BanQ

1968

http://www.banq.qc.ca/histoire_quebe...s04photo08.jsp


http://www.montrealitesurbaines.com/...fred-bohn.html

1972

Dominion Square, Feb. 20, 1972 by colros, on Flickr

1972

Feb. 20, 1972 by colros, on Flickr

[MTLskyline]

Background on the demolition:



Read more: http://books.google.ca/books?id=dCM5...epage&q&f=true

Source:
The Second City Book: Studies of Urban and Suburban Canada
James Lorimer (Editor), Evelyn Ross (Editor)
Publication Date: Jan 1 1977

[franktko]

Superbes photos! 1954 was awesome...

La vue aérienne avec la mention BanQ, c'était le boom total! Place du Canada, Bonaventure, Desjardins, 500 R-L, tous en construction, wow.

[Rico Rommheim]

Fantastic post MTLskyline!

Lots of cool photos, a couple of which I had never seen before. That article was very interesting too, it offered a lot of useful information and insight into that time period of Montreal, where rampant destruction of downtown Montreal was the order of the day. It seems like for every major office project gained, 3 city blocks were wiped out elsewhere.

The Laurentian seems to have gone down in large part due to its unappealing aesthetics. It also appears that while CP was busy building grand hotels in Canadian cities, it was busy here in town consolidating and destroying acres of prime downtown land. Now we know that the ocean of urban blight surrounding the bell centre today was a once thriving sector that was in effect, single handedly swept clean by CP itself. And all that for nothing. Even Windsor station was gonna go down, had CP had its way.

After reading this article, I'm happy, even relieved that CP left town for Calgary. They were real butchers, it seems.



Many thanks.

[Rico Rommheim]

Fantastic shot. And to think there was a time when Montreal had THREE 1000+ room hotels. Only the Queen E, the ugliest sister, remains.




What's the green shit sliming off of the Laurentian facade? Was that hotel covered soot or was it's paint job failing?


I really don't know what to think of this building. For one, it was massive and evoked some sort of art deco element in addition to offering 1000 rooms of affordable hotel in the middle of downtown, but then it was built quite cheaply and you can tell.

weird.

[Rico Rommheim]

This handsome building survived the Hotel laurentien, at least initially, you can see it clearly wrapped into the back of the base here"

[MTLskyline]

Time to revive this thread!

1978: Montreal's oldest apartment building destroyed by fire.


Corner Sherbooke and Crescent 1978 by colros, on Flickr


Bishop St. 1978 by colros, on Flickr


Crescent St. 1978 by colros, on Flickr


Crescent St. 1978 by colros, on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

I remember the Hotel Laurentien as well as the famous Queen's hotel. Just returning from a conference in Montreal....stayed at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (much nicer on the inside, I can assure you...I stay there semi-regularly)

[MTLskyline]

Patrimoine et démolition: les pertes de 2013

25 Décembre 2013 | Par Guillaume St-Jean

Malgré la multiplication des mesures de protection envers le patrimoine bâti ainsi qu’une prise de conscience de plus en plus croissante de la collectivité envers ce patrimoine, la démolition d’édifices d’intérêt patrimonial à Montréal est encore un geste bien fréquent.

Dans cet article, je vous propose un aperçu, non exhaustif bien sûr, d’édifices d’intérêt patrimonial ayant été démolis au cours de l’année 2013. Nous y verrons différents cas de figure, de la démolition totale au façadisme. À la lueur des différents cas présentés, nous pourrons comprendre que l’engouement pour les édifices anciens ne constitue aucunement une garantie de leur survie.

1) 3100 rue Rachel Est
2) 2033-2035 et 2043-2049 rue Clark
3) 1206-1208 rue du Fort
4) 354 rue Berri
5) 2229 rue Sainte-Catherine Est
6) 2075-2085 rue Bishop
7) 630 rue St-Jacques

[...]

Et pour 2014 ?

Certains édifices qui seront démolis en 2014 sont déjà connus puisque l’annonce de leur démolition a été diffusée dans les médias. En voici quelques-uns :

1) 10905 rue Berri
2) 3465 rue Ethel et 345 rue Strathmore

Photos et détails: http://spacing.ca/montreal/2013/12/2...ertes-de-2013/

[lio45]

Démolir le 2075-2085 rue Bishop, wow, quel folie. Honteux.

Le reste de la liste n'est pas très encourageant non plus. Désespérant pour Montréal...

On juge vraiment trop rapidement qu'une structure est dangereuse à mon avis. Évidemment, dans une société aussi maniaque de sécurité, ce n'est pas étonnant, mais c'est clair que ça nuit à la préservation.