Tour de la Bourse by day. La Tour de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Tower) is Montreal's third-tallest building, an International Style skyscraper by Luigi Moretti and Pier Luigi Nervi. Built in 1964, this 190-metre (623ft), 47-story building was the world's tallest reinforced concrete tower until the completion of Lake Point Tower in Chicago in 1968, and the tallest building in Canada until the completion of Toronto's Toronto-Dominion Centre in 1967. It is now the 13th-tallest building in Canada. It is located at 800 Place Victoria, and is connected by the underground city to Square-Victoria metro station. The building's anchor tenant is still the Montreal Exchange on floors 3-4. {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony) Ville de Montréal, Québec, Canada Location. ...
International style can refer to International style in ballroom dancing - see ballroom dance; International style in architecture - see international style. ...
Taipei 101, the worlds tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise. ...
Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian architect and engineer. ...
1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Reinforced concrete at Sainte Jeanne dArc Church (Nice, France): architect Jacques Dror, 1926 - 1933 Reinforced concrete is plain concrete in which steel reinforcement rods or bars (rebars) have been incorporated to strengthen the naturally brittle concrete. ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
The Toronto-Dominion Centre is a large cluster of buildings in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada that is home to the Toronto-Dominion Bank as well as many other businesses. ...
1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
Montreals underground city (French: La ville souterraine) is the well-known underground city complex in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
Square-Victoria is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line. ...
The Bourse de Montréal (Montreal Stock Exchange) began in 1832 as an informal stock exchange at the Exchange Coffee House in Montreal, Canada. ...
The original project, conceived during the Expo-era economic boom, called for three identical towers arrayed in a triangle. It was scaled back to a single tower, which today forms one half of the Place Victoria complex, along with the Hôtel Delta Centre-Ville. Following the improvement and restoration of Square Victoria to its original configuration in 2002, Place Victoria is now a centerpiece of the new Quartier International downtown area. The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or simply Expo 67 was a Worlds Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1967 to coincide with the Canadian Centennial that year. ...
The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreals International District is an area of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003. ...
Tour de la Bourse by night. The tower itself is considered by many to be a masterpiece of the International style of skyscraper design. Its façade, fully renovated in 1995, features a bronze-tinted anodized aluminium curtain wall, forming a strong contrast with the slightly slanted pre-cast concrete columns at the four corners, giving the whole a sublty convex aspect. It is divided into three roughly equal blocks by mechanical floors whose corners are recessed in a slighty octogonal shape, creating small open-air interstices behind the columns at these levels. One couple of Peregrine Falcons has been nesting inside the 32nd floor recess since 1984. Bronze figurine, found at Öland Bronze is the traditional name for a broad range of alloys of copper. ...
Anodized aluminium has been treated to resist corrosion. ...
A curtain wall is a common feature of medieval castles. ...
A mechanical floor or mechanical level is a floor of a high-rise building that is dedicated to mechanical and electronics equipment. ...
Binomial name Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771 The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) is a medium-sized falcon about the size of a large crow: 38-53 cm (15 to 21 inches) long. ...
The building is managed by Magil Laurentian Realty Corporation (http://www.magil-laurentienne.com). In August 2004 Jolina Capital, owned by Lino Saputo who is also head of foodmaker Saputo Foods (http://www.saputo.com), acquired a majority stake in the building. Property management is still handled by Magil Laurentian, who retains a minority stake.
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On February 13, 1969 the terrorist Front de libération du Québec set off a bomb at the Stock Exchange, seriously injuring twenty-seven people. February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
Terrorism is a controversial term with multiple definitions. ...
The Front de Libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front), commonly known as the FLQ, was a Nationalist terrorist group founded in the 1960s that was part of the Quebec sovereignty movement. ...
On April 7, 2005 around 150 students occupied the ground floor of the building to block access to the elevators, as part of a strategy of economic disruption during the 2005 Quebec student strike. They were scattered by riot police two hours later; one arrest was made. April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The 2005 Quebec student strike, occured between February 24, 2005 and April 2005. ...
Riot control are the measures to control a riot or to break up an unwanted demonstration (usually of protestors). ...
See also This is a list of the tallest skyscrapers in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada as of April 2005: 1000 de la Gauchetière : 205m/673ft, 51 stories - 1992 1250 René-Lévesque : 199m/653ft, 47 stories - 1992 Tour de la Bourse : 190m/623ft, 47 stories - 1964 Place Ville-Marie...
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