The Hôtel-de-Ville Residence is a multifamily residential project in the Plateau Mont-Royal district of Montreal. This historic workers neighborhood offers a variety of architectural richness, including the extensive use of traditional red clay brick. The project consolidates a block corner with an existing two-story building through the construction of a new three-story building that cantilevers over the existing volume.
Photography: Adrien Williams
The project is distinguished by creating unity and cohesion between a patrimonial building and contemporary architecture, through a simple stripped-down language. For ACDF Architecture, the Hôtel- de-Ville Residence was an opportunity to reflect on the expression of contemporary urban architecture. Photography: Adrien Williams
The project aims to value the integrity of the neighborhood’s architectural qualities while integrating contemporary characteristics. In order to attain a durable architectural expression that is respectful of the built environment, ACDF analyzed the surroundings and chose to preserve certain predominant existing qualities.

For instance, the project maintains the position of residential entrances directly on the sidewalk, preserves a volumetric simplicity, conserves the unity of the street corner, and composes the new façade in order to preserve vertical proportions of openings and careful alignments. At the back of the block, the volume of the project is articulated around ...