Nuns' Island gas station facts for kids
The Nun's Island gas station was a modernist-style filling station in Montreal attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1969. It is Joe Fujikawa, who worked for Mies, that was the project architect. Closed for several years, it was later converted to a community centre.
It was the first gas station on the island, commissioned by Imperial Oil.
Community centre
The borough of Verdun transformed the building into a community arts centre, La Station. Eric Gauthier was the lead architect on the project, which saw the two glass pavilions rebuilt to their original 3,000- and 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) sizes.
La Station is a community centre for teens and people over 50 years of age. The two main buildings are called the salle blanche (English: white room) and salle noire (English: black room), after their floor colours. The original glass-enclosed attendant's booth serves as a display case of Mies' and the building's history, with the former fuel dispensers marked by ventilation shafts. The centre uses geothermal energy.
