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Hotel Gault is the result of the conversion of a commercial building in Old Montreal into a thirty-room hotel. Uncluttered by ostentation, the hotel is defined by spaciousness, light and the balance between the architectural features.

Elements of the original structures are brought to the fore: a vast open space on the ground floor, with cast-iron columns and huge windows. The new vocation is expressed within the Second Empire style building in a pure, contemporary language in which the raw materials (steel, concrete, stucco and wood) are balanced with the original elements.

The thirty rooms reflect as many variations on the theme of accommodation. They are a sort of architectural laboratory in which individual occupants can modify their space at will, using a series of mobile structural elements: folding screens, draperies, large sliding panels, furniture on casters. The rooms have an open plan, based on a concept of nested subspaces.

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Finalist, Prize of Excellence
Interior design category
Ordre des architectes du Québec, 2005

Grand Prize of the Jury
Commerce Design Contest
Commerce Design Montreal, 2003

Project of the year
Canadian Interior Magazine Award
Canadian Interior Magazine, 2003 

Area

30 000 sq.ft.

Design team

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Paul Bernier
Marie-Claude Hamelin
Loukas Yiacouvakis

Technical consultant
Ulys Collectif inc.

In collaboration with
Fournier Gersovitz Moss, Arch

Construction team

Socam construction inc.

Pictures credits

Johanne Biffi / Martin Chamberland / Guy Tessier

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