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Title	CDP Capital Center
Alternate Title	Centre CDP Capital
View	detail where the galleria meets the west elevation, upper part
Notes	financial
Work Type	bank headquarters galleria office block
Style/Period	Modern Neo-Rationalist
Creator Name	Gauthier, Daoust, Lestage Inc.
Creator Nationality	Canadian
School of Creator	Modern
Contributors to Project	Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier, Les architectes Lemay et associés
Major Design Aspects	brings outside in structure expressed contextual faces park
Elements & Spatial Types	galleria
Climate Type	cold temperate
Country	Canada
City	Montreal
State/Province	Quebec
Alternate Place Names	Square-Victoria, Place Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quartier international de Montréal
Architectural Material	steel, glass
Structural System	steel frame fabricated steel frame
Patron	Quebec Government
Dates	2002-2004
Century	21st century
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision Inc.
Date Photographed	9/15/2004
Subject Information	The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreal's International District is an area of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003. While several of the new structures were controversial during construction, the finished product is held by many as one of the finest examples of urban design in Canada. *** The Centre CDP Capital is the new headquarters of CDP Capital (formerly known as the Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec), the main investment arm of the Quebec government. Entirely suspended over the trench, the 13-storey building was the enabler and is now the centrepiece of the district, stretching between Jean-Paul Riopelle and Victoria squares. Despite its strong architectural qualities, construction was marked by opposition to the huge cost overruns of an already very expensive structure, at the same time as the CDP was losing taxpayers' money from questionable investments made during the dot-com bubble. The building integrates a new W boutique hotel at the west end on Victoria Square. Once an empty space crossed diagonally by Beaver Hall and McGill streets, Victoria Square was restored to its original configuration, that of a tree-lined square between parallel avenues. Trees and benches were added, the statue of Queen Victoria was reinstated, and special care was given to Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau outdoor entrance to the Square-Victoria Metro station. The square is now fronted on the east by the Centre CDP Capital and the Montreal World Trade Centre, to the west by Tour de la Bourse and Place de la Cité internationale, and to the south by the Quebecor building, its outdated facade fully re-designed for the occasion. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartier_international_de_Montr%C3%A9al
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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