The view from across McGill University's Lower Field.
Place Mercantile (left), at 2001 avenue McGill College, was built in 1983 to the design of Sylvia Gottwald-Thapar. The 24-floor, 92-meter tall building incorporates historic houses at the bottom, linked by an interior atrium 3 stories high.
Le 1501 McGill College, also known as La Tour McGill, (center), at 1501 avenue mcGill College, is a 36-story, 158-meter skyscraper built by WZMH Architects in 1992. The building's postmodern form features a glass curtain wall that varies between blue and green depending on sunlight. The top 4 floors form a pyramid-shaped mechanical penthouse that is lit white at night; it is lit white, green and red during the Christmas holidays (in a similar manner as the Empire State Building). The tower is crowned with a hollow pyramidal spire.
1200 McGill College (center-right), is a 24-floor, 85-meter high-rise building built in 1976.
McGill University, named after James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university, was founded in 1821. Chartered during the British colonial era, 46 years before the Canadian Confederation, it is also the first non-denominational university in the British Empire. McGill's main campus is set upon 80 acres) at the foot of Mount Royal. A second campus, Macdonald Campus, is situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 30 kilometres west of the downtown campus.
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