This is an Autostitch composite shot of the Westmount Square mixed office-residential complex as seen from the corner of Sainte Catherine Street and Wood Avenue. It's in the wealthy inner Montreal suburban enclave of Westmount, just a block west from the border with the western part of downtown Montreal.
It was designed by German-born Modernist architect, Mies van der Rohe and opened on December 13th, 1967.
Each building is 22 storeys tall. I believe the one in the front is the office building.
The small shopping concourse at ground level is connected by a pedestrian tunnel of roughly 100 metres long to Atwater Metro Station which, in turn, connects to Plaza Alexis Nihon and Dawson College.
In July, the Israeli Consulate moved here from its former location on René-Lévesque Boulevard.
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This Smart Car Fortwo Coupe delivery car was parked just outside of Kaizen Sushi Bar & Restaurant on Sainte Catherine Street in Westmount, just over the civic boundary line from downtown Montreal.
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This Smart Car Fortwo Coupe delivery car was parked just outside of Kaizen Sushi Bar & Restaurant on Sainte Catherine Street in Westmount, just over the civic boundary line from downtown Montreal.
Tags: Montréal Québec Canada Montreal Quebec city ville downtown centre-ville suburb Westmount sushi Sushi-à-Go-Go www.70sushi.com Kaizen Japanese restaurant delivery compact car subcompact car subsubcompact car Smart Car Mercedes-Benz Dragonball Z Capsule Corp. Capsule Corporation German car silver car スマート 自動車 車 スマート フォーツー Fortwo Coupe Smart Car fortwo red car Red CARnation advertising car advertising vehicle Ads on Wheels delivery car モントリオール ケベック カナダ
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Towards Cabot Square (which is mostly blocked in this shot by that STM/MTC Novabus Classic bus) and the Montreal Children's Hospital.
Taken by Plaza Alexis-Nihon shopping centre.
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This three-storey shopping centre, at the corner of Sainte Catherine's and Atwater, is the main shopping centre for the extreme western end of downtown Montreal, and it straddles the border between downtown Montreal and the upscale suburb of Westmount.
It's actually more like a large-ish neighbourhood shopping centre than it is a "destination" mall the way that, say, Place Montreal Trust would be. The largest stores in the mall, Zellers discount department store, the Canadian Tire, the IGA supermarket, and Pharmaprix (Shoppers Drug Mart in Quebec), are the same sorts of stores that you'd find in a suburban neighbourhood mall like, say, Faubourg de L'Ile in Pincourt, just arranged over three storeys into a more compact area. The only exception for large surface stores here may be Sports Experts, which is a fair bit larger than an equivalent sports store at a smaller mall.
The McDonald's in Alexis-Nihon opened in 2002, replacing a McDonald's just across the street.
This mall is also a magnet for Anglophone Quebec CEGEP (Quebec junior colleges) students. as it's directly connected, via the Atwater Metro station, to Dawson College, just across the street to the north.
For a better view of the McCafé, see the night shot I took of two police cars outside the Atwater side entrance to the plaza when I visited Montreal in July.
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