Ambitious plan for the Institut des Sourdes-Muettes
Quebec has found a developer that has come up with an ambitious plan to build residential towers around the abandoned Institut des Sourdes‑Muettes on St‑Denis.
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DeWolf 10:31 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
I’ll bet there will be grumbling from people who prefer big parking lots (open space!) to buildings. But this seems like a success: a historic landmark that has been empty for years will be preserved and restored, and there will be 800 new apartments in a part of town that has incredibly high demand for housing. The big question is how many of those apartments will be social housing – according to the article the Quebec government is paying for a portion of them but it doesn’t say how many.
Architecturally the renderings aren’t very inspiring, but the same developer is responsible for the new building at Gilford/Saint-Denis (where the old chrome diner used to be) and it has turned out nicely. All we need from this particular project is something unassuming with good materials that doesn’t detract from the historic building that deserves all the attention.
Kate 11:04 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
I saw that building the other day. My only quibble is that it throws shade on the interesting bit of Gilford between St‑Denis and the metro station – but anything that size would do the same. If the units are inhabited and not only bought as investments, it should bring a little more street life to that corner of the Plateau.
Orr 13:49 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
Will this be the end of the ugly chain link fences that surround these parking lots (at Roy & Cherrier) and turn that little section of rue St-Denis into the street’s ugliest block?
Ephraim 14:45 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
We need housing. I see little to argue about, except, what did they say? Can you repeat that? What? 😀
CE 15:04 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
The renderings seem to be showing the massing of the buildings rather than what they might look like when built. I hope they turn out better than the building finished recently across the street at the corner of Roy and St-Denis. Why so many developers are using white brick in this climate I don’t understand. Just look at the white brick buildings in neighbourhoods built in the 50s and 60s or the façades on older buildings that were replaced around the same time. They’re not looking good.