Héritage Montréal promoting the city's DNA for nearly 50 years!
Contest
Héritage Montréal’s Next Generation Committee invited emerging heritage professionals* to rethink the sites of Montreal’s former incinerators.
Witnesses to the city’s industrial past, the imposing chimneys of the Carrières and Dickson incinerators are a reminder that until the end of the 20th century, Montreal burned its household waste. Victims of the awakening of environmental awareness, these facilities, originally symbols of hygienism and municipal gigantism, have now become urban ruins.
The public can vote for their favorite proposal until September 30!
Héritage Montréal’s Next Generation Committee is launching its third competition, inviting emerging heritage professionals to explore the conversion potential of this unique industrial heritage. Projects must develop coherent, innovative architectural proposals that respect the character of the site while creating a dialogue between the two buildings. They may address, for example, waste management, energy transition, territorial metabolism and reindustrialization. They may also be inspired by social mobilizations against urban pollution, integrating themes of social and environmental justice, toxic colonialism, and the right to the city.
Guided tours
This year, Héritage Montréal invites you to come and discover remarkable public buildings that have helped shape our city’s growth, going back to 1870. Accompanied by our volunteer guides, you’ll learn how architectural approaches to markets, public baths, libraries and other civic buildings evolved over the years, and how some of these structures have been transformed to meet the changing needs of Montrealers.
– 📅 Reservations required. No purchase on site.
– ❌ No exchanges or refunds.
– 🚫 No resale of tickets allowed.
– ⏰ Latecomers will not be accepted.
Position
The April 30 public information meeting on the future of the Verdun Natatorium, attended by Héritage Montréal, was an opportunity to gauge the undeniable affection of the population, and Verdunites in particular, for this municipal heritage building with its Art Deco architecture and its place in the life of the community as well as in the riverside landscape of boulevard LaSalle.
Many recalled personal memories and the importance of this use, as well as the vision shown by the City of Verdun, which built and inaugurated it in 1940, creating the first outdoor swimming pool in Quebec and the largest in Canada.
Great news
A quarter of a century after the closure of the Eaton’s chain of stores, the restaurant in its Sainte-Catherine Street department store, inspired by the dining rooms of the ocean liners of the interwar period, is coming back to life after too long a hibernation. And that’s great news for heritage, for downtown and for the city as a whole!
In 1999, Héritage Montréal urgently intervened with the authorities to ensure that this site, threatened with bankruptcy, would be adequately protected. The Minister of Culture, Agnès Maltais, responded by classifying the entire 9th floor of the department store, both for its architecture and for its place in community life.