Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Place Bonaventure

Preferred Title: 
Place Bonaventure
Image View: 
View depicting north hotel entry and fountain
Creator: 
Raymond Tait Affleck (Canadian architect, 1922-1989)
Location: 
site: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Location Note: 
900 Rue De la Gauchetière Ouest
GPS: 
+45.499424-73.565100
Date: 
1964-1968 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Canadian
Style Period: 
Brutalist; Modernist; Modern
Work Type 1: 
mixed-use development
Work Type 2: 
shopping mall
Work Type 3: 
railroad station
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
concrete
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; contemporary (1960 to present); fountain
Description: 
A large mixed-use development containing a hotel, conference center and retail stores. Affleck's ideas for internal "streets" were emulated by a generation of Canadian architects: he thought that indoor and outdoor systems should be interconnected and punctuated by "events", which could take the form of garden areas or terrace restaurants, with shopping and office levels adjacent, all woven together with easy pedestrian access up, down or through the complex. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier: 
1A1-AR-PB-A8
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.