Edifice Marie-Guyart

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Edifice Marie-Guyart
Complexe G.
Edifice Marie-Guyart
Basic data
Place: Quebec , Canada
Construction time : 1967-1972
Status : built
Architectural style : brutalism
Use / legal
Usage : Office space
Owner : Quebec Province
Client : Quebec Province
Technical specifications
Height to the top: 176.5 m
Height to the roof: 132 m
Rank (height) : 1st place (Québec)
Floors : 31
Building material : Steel , glass

The Édifice Marie-Guyart (also called Complexe G ) is a high-rise in the Canadian city ​​of Québec . It stands on the Colline parlementaire in the La Cité-Limoilou district . At 132 meters, it is the tallest building in the city . The cuboid concrete building in brutalist style was completed in 1972 after five years of construction and has a 44.5 m high antenna on the roof. There is a public viewing platform on the top of the 31 floors. The building is used by two ministries from the Province of Québec .

history

As a result of the silent revolution in the 1960s, the provincial government of Québec expanded its areas of responsibility significantly in a short period of time, which resulted in an increased demand for office space in the city center. In 1961 an urban spatial planning commission was founded. Two years later, it presented an ambitious land use plan for an administrative district around the parliament building . The planned buildings were marked with letters (hence the name Complexe G ). The first version of the Cemplexe G , presented in 1965, comprised four high-rise buildings with 22 to 25 floors. These would have offered two and a half times as much office space as was actually available later.

Construction work on the now existing high-rise began in 1967 and was completed in 1972. Between this and the Grand Théâtre de Québec , two more high-rises were planned in 1969. The existing buildings on the site were acquired and demolished, but the two additional high-rise buildings have never been erected to this day. The Complexe G was given the new official name Édifice Marie-Guyart in 1989 in honor of Marie de l'Incarnation (Marie Guyart), the founder of the Ursuline Order in New France . Today's users of the Édifice Marie-Guyart are the Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sport and the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection with a total of around 4,500 jobs.

Viewing platform

At the top of the 31st floor there has been a viewing platform since 1998, the Observatoire de la Capitale . At an altitude of 221 meters above sea level, visitors are presented with a 360 ° panorama of the city and the surrounding area, with a view of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains , the peaks of the Laurentine Mountains and the Île d'Orléans .

Web links

Commons : Édifice Marie-Guyart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Marie Lebel, Alain Roy: Québec 1900–2000, le siècle d'une capitale . Éditions Multimondes, Québec 2000, ISBN 2-89544-008-5 , pp. 95 .
  2. ^ Lebel, Roy: Québec 1900–2000, le siècle d'une capitale. P. 100.

Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '29.2 "  N , 71 ° 13' 3.2"  W.