From healing patients to healing the planet: Montreal’s Royal Vic hospital revitalized

For more than a century, the castle-like Royal Victoria Hospital was a primary Montreal medical care facility. Now the complex of buildings at the northeast corner of the McGill University campus is being transformed for a new role: a global research and teaching hub dedicated to sustainability and public policy.

“We are inspired with a goal of changing a place that was designed for healing the body into a centre devoted to the most critical issue of our time: healing the planet,” says Donald Schmitt, principal of the project’s architecture team, Diamond Schmitt/Lemay Michaud.