The Architect · Hélène · Montréal
Habitations Jeanne-Mance / Place des Arts complex
Place des Arts is the city's great mid-century cultural statement — a 1960s complex of concert halls and theatres on a raised plaza that anchors the whole Quartier des Spectacles today. Read it as 1960s urban-renewal ambition, with all its strengths and its hard edges, and see how the recent festival-district landscaping has softened and reactivated it.
The 1960s performing-arts complex and its plaza — Montreal's ambitious, contested mid-century cultural megaproject, anchor of the festival district.
— Hélène, The Architect
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