Olympic Village (Montreal)

The Olympic Village (French Village olympique, english Olympic Village ) is a housing estate in the Canadian city of Montreal. It is located at the intersection of Rue Sherbrooke and Viau Boulevard in the arrondissement of Rosemont -La Petite- Patrie, north of the Olympic Park and the Parc Maisonneuve. During the 1976 Olympic Games, some 9,000 athletes, coaches and officials were housed here. The settlement consists of two pyramid-shaped blocks of houses which comprise two towers of 23 floors. The two juxtaposed, slightly angled blocks are almost 600 meters long together, while the towers reach a height of 70 meters. Responsible architect was Roger Taillibert.

When Montreal won the bid for the Olympic Games in 1969, the city undertook to build an Olympic village. Later she asked the IOC to request to be allowed to accommodate the athletes at five different locations in a radius of several kilometers around the Olympic Park. However, the IOC was in June 1973 at a single plant in the vicinity of the sports venues. The contract for the construction of the Olympic Village, the company received Groupe Lépine. Construction began in November 1974 and were on June 23, 1976 completed.

During the Olympics, most of the athletes and officials were housed in the facility, one of the four towers in accordance with IOC guidelines was reserved for women. The sailors and equestrians were in Kingston and two smaller Bromont Olympic villages are available. Following the games relied on by the Groupe Lépine ZAROLEGA consortium built around the 980 apartments for the permanent use and rented them. In 1998 the plant was sold to the Israeli El -Ad Group.