Montréal Architecture (No.5)
During those brilliantly sunny but freezing cold Montréal winter days, there is still a way to appreciate the sun’s rays. When I was a student at McGill, I would sit in the south-west facing window in the entrance hallway of the Blackader-Lauterman Library. The sun would stream in and I would bask in the light of this otherwise uninteresting passage. I’d sit on the window’s sill and feel my back absorb the orange-yellow solar heat. Climbing out of my hole into these moments of mid-winter warmth was the closest I would come to a holiday in the south.
I always find myself scouting out cafés that have sunny windows for those needed vitamin D breaks. I order café au lait and break a sweat under the combined heat of the coffee and sun whilst dreaming about the stifling humidity of Montréal summers and the joy of walking in T-shirt, shorts and sandals at midnight.
La Gare Windsor / Windsor Station
Date: 1888-1889 (first phase)
Address: corner of rue Peel and de la Gauchetière
Architect: Bruce Price, New York
Style: Richardson Romanesque
Materials: Rusticated stone
Tags: Exploring the City, Montreal
Montreal Apartments