5 Place Ville Marie: Exterior Recladding

The deteriorated pre-cast concrete and tinted glass façade was replaced by a new curtain wall composed of Low-E clear glass set in painted aluminum frames with the back painted glass spandrels. The location of the glass was changed from the previous design and placed on the outermost perimeter thereby increasing the rentable area. On the upper four floors (added by a previous owner in the 1980s) the mullion spacing in the new curtain wall was doubled from five to ten feet by eliminating every other mullion, thus making legible the well-proportioned volume of the original building and minimizing the apparent bulk of the expansion.