CIBC Tower ( French : Tour CIBC ) is a 187 m (614 ft) 45- storey skyscraper in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . The International Style office tower was built by Peter Dickinson , with associate architects Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett , and was the city's tallest building from 1962 to 1963. The building holds offices for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce , the corporate law firm Stikeman Elliott , the Canadian accounting firm MNP LLP , as well as numerous other businesses.
21-458: The building is located at 1155 René Lévesque Boulevard West next to Dorchester Square facing the imposing but dwarfed Sun Life Building . Part of the fire-damaged Windsor Hotel was demolished to make room for construction, with the remaining portion being converted to offices in the 1980s. The project was initiated by the Canadian Bank of Commerce and announced in 1959. While the building
42-538: A pediatric emergency department, operating rooms and perioperative services, day hospitals and some Allied Health Services. The Montreal Children's Hospital (MCH) first opened on the rented premise of 500 Guy Street on January 30, 1904. It was the first hospital in Montreal with the sole mandate of providing care for sick children. In 1909, the growing number of patients required a move to new premises on Cedar Avenue, designed by David Robertson Brown (1869–1946). In 1920,
63-505: Is affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University , Faculty of Medicine . The hospital has 154 single-patient rooms, 52-bed neonatology unit, 6 operating rooms and 6 intervention rooms. It has two blocks. Block A has pediatric outpatient services. Block B has pediatric inpatient units, which include a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). It houses
84-506: Is an unrelated street called Boulevard René-Lévesque on Nuns' Island in Verdun . 45°30′33″N 73°33′41″W / 45.509097°N 73.561318°W / 45.509097; -73.561318 Montreal Children%27s Hospital Montreal Children's Hospital ( French : Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants ) is a children's hospital in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . Founded in 1904, it
105-422: Is exceptionally slender with only 1,400 m (15,000 sq ft) of gross floor area per floor, because of a zoning regulation limiting the total building floor area to twelve times the property area. Its façade is more ornamental than that of the average International style tower, with horizontal strips of glass curtain wall alternating with spandrels of various types of stone, including green slate that
126-666: Is lined with highrise office towers. Notable structures bordering René Lévesque Boulevard include, from west to east, the former Montreal Children's Hospital , the Canadian Centre for Architecture , E-Commerce Place , 1250 René-Lévesque , CIBC Tower , Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral , the Queen Elizabeth Hotel , Place Ville-Marie , Central Station , Telus Tower , St. Patrick's Basilica , Complexe Desjardins , Complexe Guy-Favreau , Hydro-Québec Building , UQAM and
147-445: Is one of the main streets in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . It is a main east–west thoroughfare passing through the downtown core in the borough of Ville-Marie . The street begins on the west at Atwater Avenue (though see below) and continues until it merges with Notre Dame Street East just east of Parthenais Street. This boulevard is named after former sovereignist Quebec Premier René Lévesque . Much of René Lévesque Boulevard
168-534: The Maison Radio-Canada . Former structures on the street include the Laurentian Hotel and a residential area razed to make way for the future YUL Condos residential project. All of Canada's French radio and television networks are located within a few blocks of each other, making the street French Canada's media centre. The street separates the adjacent Place du Canada and Dorchester Square . From
189-461: The McGill University Health Centre . The location of the Montreal Children's Hospital at 2300 Tupper Street officially closed at 11:00 on May 24, 2015, after 68 patients were transferred to the new Glen Site at 1001 Décarie Boulevard . The new Glen Site Montreal Children's Hospital opened its emergency doors at 5 a.m. The Glen Site is composed of different hospital centres. Since the move to
210-729: The CIBC Tower was the tallest building in Canada and the entire Commonwealth of Nations when it was first built, until being surpassed later that year by Place Ville-Marie where a penthouse was added by the competing Royal Bank for that express purpose. The Consulate of Israel was on the 26th floor of the building and as such, it was sometimes the site of demonstrations related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . The consulate has since relocated to Westmount Square in Westmount . The tower
231-520: The Glen site, the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital have the capacity to provide on-site advanced maternal and perinatal care, such as ex-utero intrapartum treatment . It is the only centre on the island of Montreal with fully array of intensive-care (including fetal interventions , ECMO , dialysis , neurosurgery , extreme of prematurity and cardiac surgery ) for both
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#1733085409952252-509: The hospital became a teaching hospital affiliated with McGill University . The hospital has achieved a number of "firsts", including the first speech clinic in a pediatric hospital in 1933, the first division of medical genetics in 1949 and the first department of psychiatry in 1950. The neonatology division was the first to create a neonatal transport team in Québec, dedicated to the ground transportation of unstable newborns. As well, in 1991,
273-635: The mother and the newborn. In 2011, it was the first pediatric hospital in Quebec to use high-frequency jet ventilation in the context of neonatal respiratory failure . It also has a strong tradition of pediatric and neonatal research , with some laboratories doing translational work in the clinical context, such as: the NeoCardioLab , the NeoBrainLab , the Neonatal Health Systems Research ,
294-408: The neonatology division created the first provincial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program to assist neonates with severe respiratory distress and pulmonary hypertension . The Montreal Children's Hospital, affiliated to McGill University, is now home to the only training programs for pediatric nurse practitioner , neonatal hemodynamics , neonatal follow-up and neonatal scholar in
315-686: The province of Quebec. The increasing number of services required another expansion. A relocation took place to 2300 Tupper Street in 1956, and it was renamed the Montreal Children's Hospital. In August 1997, the Montreal Children's Hospital merged with the Royal Victoria Hospital , the Montreal General Hospital , the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital and the Montreal Chest Institute to form
336-405: The street was widened into an eight-lane boulevard. The name was changed in 1987 after the death of Quebec premier René Lévesque . A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount , between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name " Boulevard Dorchester ", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est , where it is known as "Rue Dorchester." There
357-565: The time of its formal naming in 1844, the street was known as "Dorchester Boulevard" in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), Governor of the Province of Quebec and Governor General of Canada . As part of the Golden Square Mile , several mansions once stood on this street. Shortly after Jean Drapeau was elected mayor in 1954, his administration ordered the destruction of hundreds of buildings along Dorchester. In 1955,
378-400: The total height to 250 m (820 ft), the tallest pinnacle in Montreal. Until the end of 2018, French-language radio station CKOI-FM transmitted its 307,000 watt signal from atop the building. The antenna has since been removed. Ren%C3%A9 L%C3%A9vesque Boulevard René Lévesque Boulevard ( French : Boulevard René-Lévesque ), previously named Dorchester Boulevard ,
399-425: Was closed in the 1970s. The top 7 m (23 ft) of the tower are actually an open-air raised partition, built sometime after construction, that hides the rooftop elevator control rooms. Without this extra structure, the actual roof height is 184 m (604 ft), and approximately 187 m (614 ft) when counting the elevator penthouse. It is the fifth tallest building in Montreal, but an antenna raises
420-460: Was quarried in Wales. The building was fully renovated in 1991, and the highly visible CIBC logo at the top was redesigned in 2004 and again in 2013. Inside, levels 15 and 29 are transfer floors; level 16 is a triple-height mechanical floor that is skipped in the floor numbering of the passenger elevators. Levels 42-44 are also mechanical floors; level 45 was originally an indoor observation deck but
441-579: Was under construction, the Bank of Commerce merged with the Imperial Bank of Canada to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, effective June 1, 1961. The Imperial Bank abandoned its concurrent plan for a new head office at 612 McGill Street; that building was instead occupied by Crédit foncier franco-canadien, and since 1988 by Quebecor . Completed in 1962, a few months before Place Ville-Marie ,
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