Prise d?eau Canal de l?Aqueduc, Montréal Canada, Québec Interior, Canadian Commercial Architecture, Photos
Prise d?eau Canal de l?Aqueduc in Montréal
19 May 2022
Architect: Smith Vigeant architectes
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Photographer: David Boyer
Prise d?eau Canal de l?Aqueduc, Québec
In order to improve water quality, the city has built a new water intake along the Aqueduct Canal. The announcement of the construction of such a building on the green banks of the Aqueduct Canal, in the heart of a public park, immediately aroused great concern in the community among residents and users of the borough of Verdun. For the client and the designers, it was essential to take care of the visual impact of the Prise d?eau Canal de l?Aqueduc building in this green setting through a discreet, delicate insertion, while assuming an expressive, significant architecture.
The concept was clearly inspired by the nature of water. The metaphor infuses both the materials and the composition. Like water that always runs in the same direction, but never along the same path, the building has an unchanging appearance. However, it varies according to the weather and the seasons.

The glass offers a gradation of blue, sparkling, or shimmering pixels, depending on the time of day, as the surface of the water. At night, the building envelope offers a soft and reassuring light. In summer, it is adorned with a layer of vegetation, and in winter the color of the glass evokes a block o...