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Press Conferences

Announcement of Projects Selected Under the Policy to Integrate the Arts with Architecture and the Environment and Visit to the Construction Site – June 14, 2011

Photo du dévoilement des artistes retenus pour la conception des deux oeuvres d'art public.

From left to right:

Étienne Lavoie-Gagnon, President, Groupe immobilier Ovation
Jack Diamond, Senior Architect, Diamond & Schmitt Architects
Dominique Blain, Artist Selected to Create One of the Works
Christine St-Pierre, Minister of Culture, Communication, and Status of Women
Mélanie LaCouture, Chief Operating Officer, OSM
Tateo Nakajima, Head Acoustician, Artec

Photo: MCCCF

Visit to new Montréal concert hall worksite, October 13, 2010

From left to right: Michel Languedoc, Director, Architects Committee; Kent Nagano, Music Director of Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; Christine St-Pierre, Minister of Culture, Communication, and Status of Women; Étienne Lavoie-Gagnon, Representative, Groupe immobilier Ovation; Tateo Nakajima, Head Acoustician, Artec; Jean Roy, Director, Project Management Office.

From left to right: Michel Languedoc, Director, Architects Committee; Kent Nagano, Music Director of Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; Christine St-Pierre, Minister of Culture, Communication, and Status of Women; Étienne Lavoie-Gagnon, Representative, Groupe immobilier Ovation; Tateo Nakajima, Head Acoustician, Artec; Jean Roy, Director, Project Management Office. Picture Credit: Éric Myre

For more information please see the Progress Report (October 2010).

Construction Site Opens, May 28, 2009

Dignitaries participating to lauching of construction works

The Prime Minister of Québec Jean Charest is seen here officially opening the construction site with, left to right, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Place des Arts Jean Laurin, Musical Director Kent Nagano, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Lucien Bouchard, Minister of Culture, Communications and Status of Women Christine St-Pierre and President and Chief Executive Officer of SNC-Lavalin Pierre Duhaime. – Picture Credit: Paul Ducharme

  • Longitudinal section of the room with a view of the stage plateau.
  • View of stage plateau from a balcony.
  • View of the concert hall from the stage plateau.
  • Facade of the new room and of the new access to the Grand Foyer Culturel on Saint-Urbain street.
  • Overall view of the new hall, of the esplanade and of the new access to the Grand Foyer of the Place des Arts, from Saint-Urbain street.
  • Modelling the location of the Hall on the Eastern Esplanade at Place des Arts (seen at the corner of de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance).
  • Modelling the location of the Hall on the Eastern Esplanade (seen at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Jeanne Mance).
  • Comparative study of volumes of construction on the site of the Place des Arts.
  • The Shoe Box Hall.
  • Perspective of the implantation of the room on the Eastern Esplanade (seen at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Jeanne Mance).

The first five pictures are available in high resolution upon request.

Request for Qualification, December 15, 2006

The MNA’s for Westmount-Saint-Louis, Jacques Chagnon, Minister Line Beauchamp, and the Treasury Board President Monique Jerome-Forget.

Westmount–Saint-Louis member of parliament Jacques Chagnon, Minister of Culture and Communications and Minister responsible for the Region of Montréal Line Beauchamp and Chair of the Conseil du trésor and Minister responsible for Government Administration Monique Jérôme-Forget pose together at the launch of a request for qualifications for Montréal’s new concert hall. – Picture Credit: Eric Myre

Announcing the New Concert Hall, June 27, 2006

Concert hall annoucement

To announce the construction of the new concert hall, Minister of Culture and Communications and Minister responsible for the Region of Montréal Line Beauchamp and the Prime Minister of Québec Jean Charest were joined by Mayor of Montréal Gérald Tremblay, Musical Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Kent Nagano, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Lucien Bouchard and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Société de la Place des Arts de Montréal François Macerola. – Picture Credit: Julien Fougère

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