GLASS FOR FAÇADE 2021

42 43 GLASS FOR FAÇADE EDITION 2021 GLASS FOR FAÇADE EDITION 2021 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT HUMANITI MONTREAL’S FIRST VERTICAL COMMUNITY: HIGH-RISE FAÇADES WITH SPECIAL GLASS FROM SAINT-GOBAIN Location 385 Avenue Viger O., H2Z 2B8, Montreal, Canada Architect Lemay – Architecture and Design, Montreal, Canada Glass processors Multiver, Quebec, Montreal, Canada Saint-Gobain Glassolutions Eckelt Glas GmbH, Steyr, Austria Façade maker Epsylon, Montreal, Canada Photos ©Adrien Williams LEED® & WELL «Humaniti» is the name of a modern high-rise complex in downtown Montreal that comprises 39 floors of flats, a hotel and space for offices and restaurants. The multifunctional complex itself is as a unique project for vertical living, working and housing and is aiming for LEED and WELL certification - a debut for this kind of building in the Canadian province of Quebec. The architectural design for the H-shaped glass architecture was made by the Canadian design office Lemay, which also designed the interior of the hotel together with its affiliated company Lemay + Escobar. The 120-metre-high residential glass tower pays tribute to the Flatiron building in Manhattan and seems to split into two wings halfway up. In front of it, two horizontal bars with five and eleven storeys, respectively are stacked on top of each other, that the horizontal Targeted certifications