Palais de justice (Montreal)

The Palais de justice is a courthouse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1 Notre-Dame Street East in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of the Ville-Marie borough. It was completed in 1971.

Palais de justice
View from Notre-Dame Street
General information
TypeCourthouse
Architectural styleInternational style, Modernism
Location1, rue Notre-Dame Est
Montreal, Quebec
H2Y 1B6
Coordinates45°30′26″N 73°33′19″W
Current tenantsCourt of Quebec, Quebec Superior Court
Construction started1965
Completed1971
OwnerGovernment of Quebec
Height73.92 m (242.5 ft)
Technical details
Floor count18
Lifts/elevators26
Design and construction
Architect(s)David et Boulva
References
[1][2]

Though located in the Old Montreal historic district, it is an international style structure, featuring the outdoor sculpture Allegrocube. The black metal and granite building is adjacent to the Champ de Mars square. It was designed by Montreal architects Pierre Boulva and Jacques David, whose other prominent Montreal projects included 500 Place D'Armes, Théâtre Maisonneuve, the Dow Planetarium and the Place-des-Arts, Atwater and Lucien-L'Allier metro stations.[3][4]

Allegrocube

Created by Charles Daudelin in 1973, Allegrocube is a cube-shaped abstract sculpture outside the Palais, 2.4 m in height, made of bronze.[5]

Older courthouses
Ernest Cormier Building
Édifice Lucien-Saulnier.
Édifice Lucien-Saulnier, 1901.

The current Palais de justice de Montréal is the third building on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal to bear that name. The first was the Old Montreal Courthouse, now known as the municipal Édifice Lucien-Saulnier, designed by John Ostell (as well as Frederick Preston Rubidge) and inaugurated in 1856. Construction on the second, now known as the Édifice Ernest-Cormier and home to the Quebec Court of Appeal, began in 1922.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Palais de Justice, Montreal". SkyscraperPage.
  2. "Palais de Justice". Emporis. Archived from the original on February 28, 2021.
  3. "Montréal's Architects: David et Boulva". Images Montréal. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
  4. "2007 BOMA Canada National Awards Finalists" (PDF). Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
  5. "Charles Daudelin". MONTREAL BY METRO. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
  6. Rue Notre-Dame East, Old Montreal Web site
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