Mies van der Rohe’s gas station in Montreal preservation success!
It’s wonderful when we can report a Mid-Century preservation success:
“Long, low and in his trademark black steel, the shuttered-since-2008 Esso station by Bauhaus master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at boulevard de l’Île des Soeurs and rue Berlioz in Montreal’s Nuns’ Island community, currently lies stripped of a little of its beauty – huge sheets of glass and their associated mullions have been numbered and disassembled for restoration – but by autumn, the building will be buzzing with youth and seniors as a maison des générations.”
Read the rest of the article here….
And another article here: Montreal Open File
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