1000 de La Gauchetière, Postmodern skyscraper in Ville-Marie district, Montreal, Canada.
1000 de La Gauchetière is a 51-floor tower in Montreal built with glass, granite, steel, and concrete rising to 205 meters tall. The structure includes office space, an indoor skating rink, shopping areas, and connects to the city's underground pedestrian network.
Designed by Lemay & Associates and Dimakopoulos & Associates, the tower was built by Pomerleau Inc. and finished in 1992, the year of Montreal's 350th anniversary. It was not subject to the 1992 municipal 200-metre height limit because it was already completed that year. It was first owned jointly by Bell Canada and Teleglobe, bought in 2002 by SITQ for CA$184 million, passed to Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2011 and sold to MACH and Groupe Petra in 2021.
The building's entrance rotundas topped with copper roofs echo designs found in nearby religious structures and connect the tower visually to the neighborhood's heritage. Visitors can notice these architectural references when moving through the main lobbies.
The tower links directly to the RÉSO underground network, Central Station, Lucien-L'Allier Station and Bonaventure Metro station, so visitors can reach it indoors in bad weather. The Downtown Terminus bus terminal inside serves city and South Shore commuter buses. The indoor rink in the atrium is the feature most visitors come to see.
The building's atrium holds a full-size indoor ice skating rink, and the tower also contains a bus terminal, the Downtown Terminus, serving city and commuter buses to South Shore communities. The rink sits beside office space and shops, and the building links to Central Station, Lucien-L'Allier Station and Bonaventure Metro.
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