Victor Marius Prus (24 April 1917 in
Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland) – 21 January 2017 in
Montreal
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) was a Polish-born Canadian architect. He designed several major buildings in
Quebec
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which won many prizes, such as the
Grand Théâtre de Québec in Quebec City; his designs were chosen from those of several entries in a national competition in 1964. With his wife Maria Fisz Prus and many collaborators, he designed buildings remarkable for their characteristic and appropriate "ambiance", which, according to Prus, was the "ultimate objective" of architecture.
His principal completed commissions include:
* The first
Rockland Centre Mall, Montreal (1960)
* Savoy Apartments, Montreal (1962)
*
Autostade, Montreal (1966), with
Maurice Desnoyers
*
Mont-Royal metro station, Montreal (1966)
*
Bonaventure metro station, Montreal (1967)
* St. Augustine's Church, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (1966-1967)
* Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial at the
National Air Force Museum of Canada in
Trenton, Ontario (1969)
* The Grand Théâtre de Québec (1964–70)
*
Conservatoire de musique du Québec (1971)
* The
Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) at
Mauna Kea, Hawaii (1977)
* The rebuilt
Place Longueuil Mall, Longueuil (1981)
*
Barbados International Airport
* The
Palais des Congrès (Convention Centre) in Montreal (1979–83)
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References
External links
*Finding aid for th
Victor Prus fonds, 1945-1992
Canadian Centre for Architecture
digitized items
1917 births
2017 deaths
Brutalist architecture
Canadian architects
People from Mińsk Mazowiecki
Polish emigrants to Canada
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