The project to extend the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts south of Sherbrooke street comprised three distinct elements including the renovation of the main hall the 1912 original museum heritage structure and of a series of 8 Victorian architecture buildings along Crescent Street. The main element of the project was the construction of the Jean-Noël-Desmarais building facing the original museum across Sherbrooke street and connected through an underground series of galleries.  Besides new exhibition halls, the new building accommodates workshops, collection storage space as well as administrative office space and houses the main public access spaces including bookshop, art gallery, restaurant , boutique and the museum's main hall and a winter garden.

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