Preferred Title:
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Place Bonaventure
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Image View:
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A roof garden
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Creator:
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Raymond Tait Affleck (Canadian architect, 1922-1989)
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Location:
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site: Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Location Note:
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900 Rue De la Gauchetière Ouest
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GPS:
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+45.499424-73.565100
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Date:
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1964-1968 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian
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Style Period:
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Brutalist; Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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mixed-use development
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Work Type 2:
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shopping mall
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Work Type 3:
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railroad station
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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concrete
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; contemporary (1960 to present); garden: roof garden
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-AR-PB-A9
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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