As reported by the Globe & Mail, "The Esso on Berlioz Street was designed by world-famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1968, one year before he died. It was one of the final projects for the pioneering modernist designer of modern skyscrapers such as the TD Centre in Toronto and New York's Seagram Building.
The Mies gas station is no more. In December, Esso quietly removed the pumps and put plywood over the glass and the company sign out front. Now, Montreal's Verdun borough is left to sort out what to do with a rare piece of architecture not easily adaptable."
Via Edward Lifson | SpaceInvaded
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Too bad. That gas station was one of those rare great-architect-designed-buildings that never publicized itself as such. Its purpose was none other than providing "service" with dignity. Of course, if it were to become another Pavelló Mies van der Rohe (which is what the reconstructed German Pavilion of the 1929 World Exposition became) that would not be so bad either...but the sign would have to stay!
Big deal... I've definetly seen better gas stations.
Call me when the petrol equivalent of the Larkin Building is on the chop block!
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