Montreal Apartment Building Entrances and Awnings

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I don’t know who designed all of these, but I certainly am in awe of either the drugs they took or how they were able to make something so mundane so cool. Apologies in advance, I didn’t write down any addresses.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awnings
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awnings

Why three semi-circles?

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

Dead-on-balls-accurate art deco with a capital a.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Some sort of gliders perhaps? And if they’re curved, why so angular?

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

This one is just kind of graceful.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Telescoping tunnel effect through the vegetation in Westmount.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A more refined and demure glider effect.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

This one was just so awesome I had to take its picture twice.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

What’s up with the plexiglass bubble?

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

This is just so cute I want to go up and hug  it.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

I think whoever designed it couldn’t make up their mind, and decided to try both styles at the same time.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Man the way those arches punch through the awning reminds me of some kind of alien space ship or something.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

This one I don’t understand. Saw-tooth?

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

Another tiny and cute entrance.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A less threatening saw-tooth.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

All fine and dandy until you realize that it is on a 45 degree angle to the street.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

Mirror, mirror. Did the architect only get paid half of what they thought the project was worth?

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A truncated glider awning, in brown.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

These next three apartment buildings all are the same on paper, but someone had fun dressing them up so that they look different.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

The second

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

And the third.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Where, why and how they figured out this one I have no idea.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

You’d figure that the lights would be all lined up properly instead of following the ceiling line.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A two-step awning with two pillars.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A different two-step awning.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Anticipating the style in hat brims by some 40 or 50 years.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A nice sloping dome effect.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Two-step awning.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

A rare reverse curve.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

OK, maybe not so rare.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance

Bet you dollars to doughnuts this was built in 1967.

Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning
Cool Montreal Apartment Building Awning

Make me think of the hand motions of a very excited eight year-old girl.

One thought on “Montreal Apartment Building Entrances and Awnings”

  1. OMG! Photo #9! 175 Sherbrooke East! I had a practitioner teaching criminal procedure at McGill many years ago who told us that this building had, for some reason, provided him with more clients than any other in town.

    I wonder what is going on beyond the awning?!

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