Westmount Square

{{Short description|Residential and office complex in Westmount, Quebec}}

{{Confused|Westmount Centre|Westmount Mall}}

{{Infobox building

| name = Westmount Square

| native_name = Carré Westmount

| native_name_lang = Westmount Square

| image = Westmount Square.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption =

| completion_date = 1967

| building_type = Office and Residential

| location = Westmount, Quebec, Canada

| coordinates = {{coord|45|29|14.12|N|73|35|15.82|W|region:CA|display=inline,title}}

| roof = {{convert|83|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| top_floor =

| antenna_spire =

| floor_count = 22

| floor_area = {{convert|30658|sqm|sqft|0|abbr=on}}

| elevator_count =

| owner = Creccal Investments Ltd.

| architect = Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Greenspoon, Freedlander, Dunne, Plachta & Kryton

| public_transit = {{rint|montreal|metro}} {{rint|montreal|metro|1}} Atwater
{{rint|montreal|bus}} Terminus Atwater

| references = {{skyscraperpage|2293|name=Westmount Square Office Building}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/112438 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001212558/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/112438 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 1, 2019 |title=1 Westmount Square |work=Emporis}}

| website = {{Url|westmount-square.ca/}}

}}

Westmount Square (French: Carré Westmount){{Cite web |title=Notre histoire – Carré Westmount |url=https://westmount-square.ca/history/ |access-date=2024-10-20 |language=fr-FR}} is a residential and office complex located in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. There are two residential apartment buildings and two office buildings. These towers sit atop an underground shopping centre consisting of thirty-five shops. It is located between Sainte Catherine Street West and De Maisonneuve Boulevard West and between Wood Avenue and Greene Avenue. It is connected to Place Alexis Nihon, Dawson College, and the Atwater Metro station by a tunnel.

The complex was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the International style.{{cite book|author=Jean-Louis Cohen|title=Mies Van Der Rohe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6ALj_lw9IUC&pg=PA118|year=1996|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-419-20330-8|pages=118–}}{{cite book|author1=Franz Schulze|author2=Edward Windhorst|title=Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CO05VeT5_Q0C&pg=PA348|date=1 November 2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-75602-8|pages=348–}} Construction began in 1964 and the complex opened on December 13, 1967. The exterior facade features curtain walls,{{IMTL|784|name=Westmount Square (south tower)}} and is made of black anodized aluminum and smoked glass windows. It was modeled on Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago.{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/112436 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307022444/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/112436 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |title=2 Westmount Square |work=Emporis}}{{cite book|author=Dean Almy|title=On Landscape Urbanism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IxMAAAAYAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture|isbn=978-0-934951-07-4}}

The office building, also known as Tower 1, has 22 floors and stands {{convert|83|m|ft}} tall. The other office building has 2 floors and is known as the Tower 4 Pavilion; it was formerly the Eastern Airlines Building. The two residential towers each have 21 floors, and stand {{convert|69|m|ft}} tall.{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/112437 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001212557/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/112437 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 1, 2019 |title=3 Westmount Square |work=Emporis}}

Westmount Square's shopping concourse houses boutiques and art galleries, with about one-third of the space reserved for private for-profit health clinics.{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/specials/story.html?id=69ffb548-6eb4-4b28-be6d-f47693c71e06|title=Two-tiered Westmount Square|date=2005-02-16|publisher=The Gazette (Montreal)|access-date=7 October 2012}} Skylights were installed on the roof of the shopping concourse in 1990, which led to criticism among architectural preservationists.{{cite web|url=http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/canada/quebec/montreal/review-202688.html|title=Westmount Square|publisher=Fodor's|access-date=7 October 2012}}