Acadie (Montreal Metro)

Acadie is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Villeray -Saint -Michel- Parc- Extension at the intersection of Boulevard de l' Acadie Avenue and Beaumont. Here courses of the blue line 2 In 2006, 958 814 passengers used the station, which is the 63rd position among the total of 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Pierre Boyer- Mercier and Patrice Poirier station was built in the form of a tunnel station. What is striking is the combination of colorful play of colors and geometrical shapes, resulting in an attractive appearance. The walls of the platforms and the distribution level are clad in polished black granite and limestone matt in a checkered pattern. There are also dark blue ceramic panels and the strict diagonal forms of pink floors and light elements. The bottom of the distributor level is kept in bright blue green. The two entrance pavilions have irregular angles and create a modern appearance.

In 16.5 meters depth, the platform level is with two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station from the end to the beginning station measured amount to 727.60 meters to 728.60 meters from Parc and Outremont. There are connections to three bus routes and two night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal.

Art

Jean Mercier, the brother of the station architect Pierre Boyer- Mercier, created in the connecting tunnel to the eastern entrance pavilion and in the stairwell of the distributor level three murals. He transferred oversized photographs using Email on the clad steel walls. Shown are different people (friends and relatives of the artist), the making somersaults and leaps into the air; only the artist's father is upright. Be symbolizes the breaking of the strict symmetry of the station and the high rise in the unfettered free.

From Météore design the artwork Lieu de rendez -vous originates ( " meeting place " ) in the waiting area of the distributor level. It is a six-meter- high column of steel and porcelain, at the head of a clock is fixed. Two benches are arranged like the hands on a clock. The style of the watches column accesses the Art Deco style of the 1920s. The benches on the platforms were designed by Mario Morelli. They are made of black granite and red painted steel, so they match the color of the walls and floors. The shape is reminiscent of benches in early streetcar.

History

The section Parc - Snowdon was indeed already opened on 4 January 1988, but the trains here for the time being without a stop by, since the completion of the construction work had been delayed by several weeks. The opening of the station Acadie finally took place on 28 March 1988. Namesake is the Boulevard de l' Acadie, a number starting at the station main road. This was first called Avenue McEachran and received in 1955 the new name, in commemoration of the Deportation of the Acadians from their homeland on the Atlantic coast 200 years ago.