Héritage Montréal promoting the city's DNA for nearly 50 years!
Contest
For the third edition of its ideation contest, Héritage Montréal is inviting its next generation to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by the urban and landscape identity of its industrial heritage. With ten days at their disposal, from September 5 to 15, 2024, up-and-coming designers were challenged to rekindle the flame of the Carrières and Dickson incinerators at not one, but two sites proposed in this edition of the competition.
Winning projects :
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.
Thanks to our generous sponsors: Sid Lee Architecture, CCxA, EVOQ, AQPI, Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Concours et Médiations de l’Excellence and l’Espace Ville Autrement.
Guided tours
From August 3 to October 6, 2024, Héritage Montréal invited the public to discover remarkable public buildings that have shaped the development of Montreal since 1870. This theme explored the evolution of architectural approaches through the ages, such as the construction of markets, public baths and city halls.
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.