VMFT Episode 015 The Diminutive in Brutalism
Channel: Virtual Montreal Fountain Tours
Date: 2022-10-27

I discovered this little aqueous gem while walking to work on the corner of Robert-Bourassa Boulevard and St-Antoine Street West 

Like anything else associated with the architectural creations by the Montreal-based architectural firm of Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise (ADDLS) during the decade from 1959 through 1969, it too is part of Montreal’s fabric.


From 1958-64 they were supervising architects in association with with I.M. Pei & Associates, New York, in the construction of Place Ville Marie and Place des Arts which we visited in Episode 012. 


Located adjacent to Place Bonaventure, or more directly to what is known as the South Block Development of the firm ADDLS in the archives of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.