Griffintown Dialogues

Themes of lightness and the malleability of industrial constructions, striking changes in scale, and block permeability are explored in the project through interventions that encourage the use of these interstitial spaces, as well as the opening and perforation of industrial structures to allow for their reappropriation and the integration of new functions.

Two streets structure the neighborhood: William Street, running from Place d’Youville to the Saint-Gabriel Basin, and Notre-Dame Street, extending toward the canal near the junction with des Seigneurs Street. The project requalifies both Notre-Dame and William Streets, one as a major circulation artery and commercial street at the city scale, where Griffintown can assert its identity; the other, rooted in an industrial neighborhood logic, weaving connections between Notre-Dame Street and the canal’s edge.