1 Square Phillips Construction Cam in Montreal

It’s quite common to watch a building being constructed from the ground up. In the case of this webcam focused on the 1 Square Phillips building site in Montreal, Canada, you can see the operation from up to the ground. It’s an aspect that is, in a word, vertiginous.

The building work going on here is a twenty-one story extension to the already existing sixty-one story 1 Square Phillips on the city’s Phillips Square. While the views won’t be as breathtaking as those from the first building which is the tallest residential tower in Montreal, it will have plenty of ooh la la features that will compensate for the lack of vistas. Why have the buildings been blessed with a back to front name? Say Square Phillips out loud in English and it sounds very strange. Say Le Square Phillips with a French accent, no matter how bad, and it begins to make a lot more sense.