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The Nuns' Island gas station was a modernist-style filling station in Montreal built in 1969 from a project of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Closed for several years, it was later converted to a community centre.

It was the first gas station on the island, commissioned by Imperial Oil.

Community centre

The borough of Verdun transformed the building into a community arts centre, La Station. Eric Gauthier was the lead architect on the project, which saw the two glass pavilions rebuilt to their original 3,000- and 1,000-square-foot (93 m) sizes.

La Station is a community centre for teens and people over 50 years of age. The two main buildings are called the salle blanche (English: white room) and salle noire (English: black room), after their floor colours. The original glass-enclosed attendant's booth serves as a display case of Mies' and the building's history, with the former fuel dispensers marked by ventilation shafts. The centre uses geothermal energy.

See also

• Westmount Square

References

1. "In Your Neighbourhood: The Mies Van Der Rohe Buildings". City of Montreal. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
2. Perreaux, Les (January 27, 2009). "The Ritz of gas stations looks for a new life". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
3. "Master architect designs unique station". Montreal Gazette. September 20, 1968. p. 90. Retrieved December 26, 2009.
4. Lejtenyi, Patrick. "Nuns saves Mies". Montreal Mirror. Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011.
5. Leblanc, Dave (July 8, 2011). "Mies's Montreal gas station gets new lease on life". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
6. Woolfrey, John (February 24, 2012). "La Station: The Jewel in the Nuns' Island Crown". Openfile Montreal. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013.

External links

• Construction underway to transform famed Nuns’ Island gas station, May 10, 2011 at the Wayback Machine (archived March 23, 2012)
• Montreal Architects Rescue Mies Van Der Rohe Gas Station from Obscurity, The Architizer Blog
• Conversion of Mies van der Rohe gas station on Nuns Island, e-architect.co.uk, Feb 21, 2012, updated March 6, 2014

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Berlin years (1907–1938)	Villa Wolf (1925–1926; destroyed, 1945) Weissenhof Estate (four homes) (1927–1928) Barcelona Pavilion (1928–1929; reconstructed, 1986) (with Lilly Reich) Haus Lange and Haus Esters (1928–1930) Villa Tugendhat (1928–1930) (with Lilly Reich) Lemke House (1933)
United States (1939–1959)	Promontory Apartments (1949) Farnsworth House (1945–1951) Carr Memorial Chapel (1949–1952) Lake Shore Drive Apartments (1949–1951) Crown Hall (1950–1956) 900-910 North Lake Shore (completion, 1956) Lafayette Pavilion Apartments (1955–1958) Seagram Building (1955–1958) (with Philip Johnson) Cullinan Hall and the Brown Pavilion, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1958; 1974) Lafayette Park (co-authorship) (1959) Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments (1958–1960)
Worldwide (1960–1969)	Bacardi Office Building (Mexico) (1958–1961) One Charles Center (1962) Dirksen Federal Building (1960–1964) Highfield House Condominium (1964) Lafayette Towers Apartments East (1963) Lafayette Towers Apartments West (1963) Westmount Square (Canada) (1964–1967) New National Gallery (Germany) (1968) Richard King Mellon Hall (1968) Toronto-Dominion Centre (1964–1969) Nuns' Island gas station (Canada) (1969) Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (1972) IBM Plaza (1973) Kluczynski Federal Building (1960–1974)
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• Commercial buildings completed in 1969
• Buildings and structures in Verdun, Quebec
• ExxonMobil buildings and structures
• Gas stations in Canada
• Heritage buildings of Quebec
• Historic filling stations
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe buildings
• Modernist architecture in Canada
• 1969 establishments in Quebec
• Community centres in Canada
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