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25 SAINT-GOBAIN BUILDING GLASS LE DIAMANT ART AND CULTURE 24 The cultural and events centre «Le Diamant» was awarded by the Prix d’Excellence en Architecture, category cultural building. It is located on the Place d’Youville, an interface between the modern part of the city and Vieux- Québec, its historic centre. The core of the building consists of three volumes: a prestigious old building erected on the square in 1879, a new building at the rear for the theatre hall and a glass structure, the identity-giving «heart». To the north and east, the centre adjoins the surrounding buildings. From the front and across the corner it shows itself in historical brickwork. The cube of the theatre hall, set in fair-faced concrete, carries a façade of precast concrete elements towards the street. The architects inserted the glass volume of around 2,000 m 2 between the new and the existing building. SAINT-GOBAIN low-E coated glass PLANITHERM ® ONE II allows a neutral and clear film with low emissivity, highly efficient on face 3, which leaves plenty of room on the front for SAINT-GOBAIN extra- clear glass DIAMANT ® and a complex screen printing on side 2. The clarity of DIAMANT ® allows this screen printing to keep its original color (pure white) and thus respects the intended design of the architecture team. GLASSY CENTREPIECE OF EXTRA-CLEAR GLASS DIAMANT CONNECTS THE OLD AND THE NEW Location Place D’Youville, Québec (City), Canada Architects Coarchitecture - Atelier In situ – Jacques Plante architecte, Montreal, Canada Glass processor Multiver, Québec (City), Canada; SAINT-GOBAIN GLASSOLUTIONS Pruszkow, Poland Photos ©Stéphane Groleau Products DIAMANT® PLANITHERM® ONE II