Tour de la Bourse

Tour de la Bourse
Basic data
Place:	Montreal , Canada
Opening:	1964
Status :	Built
Architectural style :	International style
Architect :	Luigi Moretti , Pier Luigi Nervi
Use / legal
Usage :	Office space
Owner :	Corporation immobilière Magil Laurentienne
Technical specifications
Height :	190 m
Rank (height) :	3rd place (Montreal)
Floors :	47
Elevators :	26th
Floor area :	95,026 m²
Building material :	Reinforced concrete

The Tour de la Bourse ( English Stock Exchange Tower ) is a skyscraper in Montreal . It was built according to plans by Luigi Moretti and Pier Luigi Nervi and opened in 1964. With a height of 190 meters, the Tour de la Bourse is the third tallest building in the city (it was the tallest until 1992). The international-style skyscraper is located in the central arrondissement of Ville-Marie on Square Victoria . The building is named after the Montreal Stock Exchange .

description

The Tour de la Bourse is located in the so-called Quartier International , between Rue Saint-Antoine in the west, Rue Saint-Jacques in the east and Square Victoria in the north. The original project, designed in the wake of the economic boom leading up to the world exhibition Expo 67 , envisaged the construction of three identical skyscrapers, which were to be arranged in a triangle. A financial bottleneck meant that ultimately only one of these planned buildings was built. The Hotel Delta Center-Ville later came to be on the site of the second planned skyscraper.

In architectural circles, the Tour de la Bourse is considered a masterpiece of the international style. The facade, which was completely renovated in 1995, consists of a bronze-colored, anodized curtain wall . It contrasts with the inclined, precast concrete columns at the four corners. This creates a slightly curved impression. The building is divided into three roughly equal-sized blocks by maintenance floors, the corners of which are set back in an octagonal shape.

The 190 meter high building was the tallest in Montreal until 1992, and is still the third tallest today. Until the completion of the Lake Point Tower in Chicago in 1968, the Tour de la Bourse was the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, and until the completion of the Toronto Dominion Center in Toronto in 1967, the tallest building in Canada. The Montreal Stock Exchange on the third and fourth floors is still a major tenant . On February 13, 1969, a bomb placed by the Front de Liberation du Québec exploded near the stock exchange, injuring 27 people.

The Ville souterraine , the extensive underground city , connects the skyscraper with several neighboring buildings and the underground station Square-Victoria-OACI .