Description
"Humaniti" is the name of a modern high-rise complex in downtown Montreal that comprises 39 floors of flats, a hotel and space for offices and restaurants. The multifunctional complex itself is as a unique project for vertical living, working and housing and is aiming for LEED and WELL certification - a debut for this kind of building in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The architectural design for the H-shaped glass architecture was made by the Canadian design office Lemay, which also designed the interior of the hotel together with its affiliated company Lemay + Escobar. The 120-metre-high residential glass tower pays tribute to the Flatiron building in Manhattan and seems to split into two wings halfway up. In front of it, two horizontal bars with five and eleven storeys, respectively are stacked on top of each other, that the horizontal volume of the hotel connects to the tower as a bridge link. The entire complex comprises a luxury hotel with 193 rooms, a rooftop pool, over 460 residential units, including 150 condominiums, 57,000 square meters of office space and a further 17,000 square meters of commercial space.
The evenly designed glass façades are interrupted by honeycomb structures. The staggered arrangement favors the incidence of natural light into the residential units. Each honeycomb accommodates about four households, similar to the typology found in many Montreal neighborhoods. The glass façades were made with PLANITHERM® ONE II toughened multi-pane safety glass and COOL-LITE® SKN 176 II highly transparent solar control glass. SAINT-GOBAIN Glassolutions Austria Eckelt supplied the special oversized formats providing breathtaking views.
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