Palais de justice (Montreal)

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Palais de justice
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Palais de justice (Montreal)
General information
Type Courthouse
Architectural style International style, Modernism
Location1, rue Notre-Dame Est
Montreal, Quebec
H2Y 1B6
Coordinates Coordinates: 45°30′26″N73°33′19″W / 45.507121°N 73.555307°W / 45.507121; -73.555307
Current tenants Court of Quebec, Quebec Superior Court
Construction started1965
Completed1971
Owner Government 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]

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.

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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

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Ernest Cormier Building
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Édifice Lucien-Saulnier.
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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]

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