Fonderie Nord Offices

A speculative office that had to let quickly and last a long time. The answer was a plain, well-lit floor plate and a structure good enough to leave exposed.

The site in Montréal set the terms before we drew anything. The lot is hemmed in on three sides. All the daylight comes from the street and from a slot cut through the middle of the plan.

Cores sit against the party walls so the floors stay open from front to back.

We worked from a 1:50 model for most of the design stage and kept it on site through construction. Where the model and the drawings disagreed, the model usually won.