Complexe Desjardins is a

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office, hotel, and

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complex located in

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, in the Quartier des spectacles area of

Saint Catherine Street Sainte-Catherine Street ( ) () is the primary commercial artery of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It crosses the central business district from west to east, beginning at the corner of Claremont Avenue and de Maisonneuve Boulevard in Wes ...

.Le Complexe Desjardins
at ''SkyscraperPage'' The project was designed to develop the eastern end of

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, it is located in the quadrilateral formed by Saint Catherine, Saint-Urbain,

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and René Lévesque Boulevard. Its architectural design consists of several towers housing offices of the

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, Quebec Government offices and other companies, as well as a hotel, linked by an atrium shopping centre anchored by IGA. This design produces the effect of an indoor square. It is one of very few buildings in Canada to have its own postal code prefix, H5B. The Complexe Desjardins is connected by the

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to Place des Arts and the Place-des-Arts

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to the north, and the Complexe Guy-Favreau, the Palais des congrès de Montréal, and Place-d'Armes Metro station to the south. The hotel in the complex opened as the Hotel Meridien Montreal in April 1976. It was later renamed the Wyndham Montreal, then the Hyatt Regency Montreal in 2003, then the DoubleTree by Hilton Montreal in December 2018. On July 26, 1992, a man, whose body is still unidentified to this day, fell to his death fifty feet from the Complexe Desjardins.

Structures

Monument à Alphonse Desjardins

Yves Trudeau's Monument à Alphonse Desjardins was located outside at the corner of St. Urbain and St. Catherine from 1976 to 1995 but since relocated to Parc Catchpaw, in Orford, Quebec.

References

External links

Official website
{{Commons category, Complexe Desjardins Bank headquarters in Canada Office buildings completed in 1976 Darling and Pearson buildings Shopping malls in Montreal Skyscraper office buildings in Montreal Downtown Montreal 1976 establishments in Quebec Desjardins Group Quartier des spectacles

Structures

Monument à Alphonse Desjardins

See also

References

Further reading

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