Since February 18th 2015, Le Groupe Dallaire has been working on a huge and modern project called Le Phare, a $ 650 million dollars skyscraper.

Le Groupe Dallaire is in collaboration with Alpha Architecture, Gensler and RWDI to build the highest Canadian building in East of Toronto.

On November 15th 2016, Alpha Architecture presented the new look of the modern complex to be located on Laurier Boulevard in Sainte-Foy. The main tower will be made of glass and will have a triangular shape. There will be four towers including the principal structure of 250 meters high. The second, third and fourth towers will measure 180 meters, 110 meters and 60 meters high.

The total area will measure more than two million square feet and will offer office, commercial, residential spaces (1100 residential units), a hotel of 150 rooms, restaurants and a multimedia concert hall of 750 seats. There will be 3500 parking spaces  located in the seven underground levels for the residents of Le Phare.

” Le Phare de Québec will be the perfect mix of exceptional work and exciting urban living. A vitality intimately linked to the activity of its residents and multi-generation workers, its shops, restaurants, hotels, terminus, vibrating all around a formidable auditorium.”

In the middle of the new neighborhood, there will be a four seasons public place that will contains, a water mirror, a small water park for kids, an oval for outdoor shows and in winter the oval will become a ice rink. A technological panoramic will offer an exclusive view of Quebec city from its past to its present. 

Le Groupe Dallaire wants to develop a station for the future SRB (Service Rapide par Bus) that will be added to the Phare.

Even if this project looks amazing there’s several things to consider. In Sainte-Foy, the maximum height for a building is 29 floors and Le Phare will count 65 floors. People are scared of all the traffic problems that Le Phare could create, but Michel Dallaire confirmed that there will be a special exit for the residents of the modern skyscraper. Because of the height of Le Phare, Le Goupe Dallaire had to take every single precaution with Nav Canada and Transport Canada to confirm that there won’t be any problems with the Airport. If the building had been less than 4 kilometers from it, it would not have been accepted, but Le Phare is at 6.9 kilometers of Jean-Lesage International Airport of Quebec City, so for this aspect, everything is approved.

The entire complex will be built over 10 years and the work would probably start in summer 2017.

(written by Tommy Durand, edited by Emma Côté)