Building Net Worth
Private meeting rooms are set like jewel boxes behind the teller counters.
PROJECT Crew Collective, Montreal, Quebec
ARCHITECT Henri Cleinge, Architecte
TEXT Olivier Vallerand
PHOTOS Adrien Williams
Spurred by changing workplace trends, co-working environments have proliferated across cities in recent years. These multi-use spaces deploy strategies to support both individual and team work by freelancers and small companies. While they are often situated in adaptively reused industrial buildings, few consider historic preservation the way architect Henri Cleinge did for Crew Collective.
Crew?a startup tech company that brings together a network of freelance creative professionals?worked with the architect to create a co-working space and coffee shop in the main hall of Montreal?s former Royal Bank headquarters. Located in the Old Port, the neoclassical edifice was the British Empire?s tallest building when it was constructed in the late 1920s, when Montreal was the country?s financial capital. Cleinge faced the challenge of creating a dialogue with the opulent space?while also organizing a complex program that includes both secure and publicly accessible areas, without breaking the visual unity of the grand banking hall. The grand entrance to Montreal?s former Royal Bank headquarters is retained in its renovation for startup Crew Collective.
Both challenges are addressed by designing around the existing teller stands, which the building?s owner wanted to preserve. New mee...
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