Article source: Les Architectes

Nun’s Island is part of the Hochelaga archipelago located immediately southwest of Montreal. It’s urbanization followed the opening of the Champlain bridge in 1962 under an ambitious master plan carried out by Metropolitan Structures, a real estate giant who had built numerous projects in Chicago with the collaboration of Mies van der Rohe. The new community included three high rise apartment buildings by Mies office and it led, in 1966, to a commission from Standard Oil to design a prototypical gas station.

Image Courtesy Steve Montpetit

• Architects: Les Architectes
• Project: Reconversion de la station service de Mies van der Rohe à l’Île des Soeurs
• Location: 201 rue Berlioz, Verdun, Québec, Canada
• Cleint: Arrondissement de Verdun
• Architect Design: Éric Gauthier
• Team: Marc Paradis, Dominique Potvin, Jaime Lopez, Steve Montpetit
• Engineers: Aecom
• Builder: Norgéreq
• Cost: 1.4 M $
• End of project: septembre 2011
• Photographer: Steve Montpetit

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