The firm won its first commercial competition in 1972 with the construction of the Licenses and Inspections Service Building of the City of Montreal. The proposed project is a complex where each function, visually expressed by a volume and a particular architectural treatment, is part of an overall unit. The whole has the character of a fortress dominated by masses in brick and a fine curvature in frontage. Its warm color blends with that of its neighboring building, the former Viger train station.