Montreal, Quebec
Restoration
Architect
DMA Architectes s.e.n.c.r.l.Montreal, Quebec
General Contractor
Toitures Hogue Inc.Blainville, Quebec
Owner
Magil-LaurentienneMontreal, Quebec
Sheet Metal Contractor
Toitures Trois Étoiles Inc.Lasalle, Quebec
Project Manager
Luciano Salvatore Project ManagementLaval, Quebec
Built in 1904-07 as part of the once prominent Windsor Hotel, Le Windsor's history spans the past century as a stately feature bordering Dorchester Square. After the hotel’s decline, the building was restored and transformed into an office building in the mid-1980s, with elegant reception halls gracing the former hotel’s ground-floor ballrooms. Capping the nine-story building’s masonry façades is a curved mansard roof, spanning two floors. The mansard’s cladding had reached the end of its service life when the rehabilitation project was undertaken in 2013. Copper was selected as a building material in part to restore the sheet metalwork to its original material and due to its beauty and reliability.
Architectural Categories: Flat Seam Roofs and Walls, Exotic or Unusual Applications
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