page_title: Nuns' Island gas station
section_title: Community centre
hierarchical_section_title: Nuns' Island gas station / Community centre
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama shot of 'La station' taken near the end of 2011.
context_page_description: The Nun's Island gas station was a modernist-style filling station in Montreal attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1969. It is Joe Fujikawa, who worked for Mies, that was the project architect. Closed for several years, it was later converted to a community centre.
  It was the first gas station on the island, commissioned by Imperial Oil.
context_section_description: The borough of Verdun transformed the building into a community arts centre, La Station. Eric Gauthier was the lead architect on the project, which saw the two glass pavilions rebuilt to their original 3,000- and 1,000-square-foot (93 m²) sizes.
  La Station is a community centre for teens and people over 50 years of age. The two main buildings are called  the salle blanche (English: white room) and salle noire (English: black room), after their floor colours. The original glass-enclosed attendant's booth serves as a display case of Mies' and the building's history, with the former fuel dispensers marked by ventilation shafts. The centre uses geothermal energy.
caption: "La Station" lighting at night
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