Set in Old Montreal’s historic industrial sector of Faubourg des Récollets, a historic area dating back to New France, 620 Saint-Paul St. W. is an urban architectural renewal which both preserves and expands on the John Lysaght Limited Building that was originally built in 1904.
Studio Name: Lemay
Design Team: Jean-François Gagnon (lead architect)
Area: Working environments
Year: 2019
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Photography Credits: Adrien Williams
Client: Groupe MACH
Preserving three historic existing façades, the project’s sustainable and architectural strategies integrated a contemporary volume which expands its height with an entirely new concrete and wood structure, a nod to the foundries, lumberyards, and craftsmen that once called the area home.
Now a place of both modernity and heritage, the interiors feel just as warm as the workshop it once was with black spruce imparting a softened atmosphere with light tones and smooth yet stark textures.
