The Montreal Tower was a project commissioned by Taylor Woodrow and executed at the Euston office. It was presented to the authorities of the (then) forthcoming Montreal Expo as a "central feature". It had to incorporate a central concrete tower and provide a wide variety of public entertainment functions. This brief was extended to form a "skin and guts" proposition: a vertical tree with enormous roots on to which could be hung temporary exhibition elements that would be removed and replaced after the Expo.

The tower by Ron Herron is a complex of tubes, bulging and grasping light, a play city in the vertical...

Zoom: Archigram Magazine Issue no. 4



Montreal Expo '67 is reported in Architectural Design, July 1967