Champ-de-Mars (Montreal Metro)

Champ -de- Mars is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie, at the intersection of Avenue Viger and Rue Sanginet. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 1,839,827 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 48th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Adalbert Niklewicz station located in a small green area on the outskirts of Montreal Old Town, separated therefrom by the Autoroute 720 A pedestrian bridge crosses this parallel to the underground city motorway and provides a direct connection to the Rue Saint -Antoine and the old town.

The platform level with two side platforms located 6.1 meters below the surface and was in an open design. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 370.60 meters to Place - d'Armes and 720.50 meters to Berri -UQAM. There are two connections to bus lines and night bus of the Société de transport de Montréal. Other attractions nearby include the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall), the Old Port, the market hall Marché Bonsecours, the pilgrimage chapel of Notre -Dame-de -Bon- Secours, Place Jacques -Cartier and the Château Ramezay.

Art

The entrance building of the station Champ de Mars is one of the most outstanding artistic monuments of the Montreal Metro. Three of the four walls of the ground floor at the distribution level are glazed and oriented so that the sunlight can shine through. They are equipped with large stained glass windows that were created by the artist Marcelle Ferron, a member of the surrealist artist group Automatistes. The glass window titled Les grandes formes qui dansent ( "The big dancing forms " ) produce a varied play of colors on the platform level. After the opening of the station was still unadorned, rather unsightly and affected by vandalism. Then instructed the provincial government of Quebec Ferron with the design of the station and left her after a few clashes free hand. The hand-blown colored glass pieces originated in Paris in the workshops of Compagnie de Saint- Gobain, for the other parts and the protective layer, the glass blowing Superseal in Saint- Hyacinthe was responsible.

History

The opening of the station took place on 14 October 1966, together with the section between Place - d'Armes and Henri- Bourassa. It thus belongs to the basic network of the metro. The namesake of the station is the nearby Champ de Mars ( "Mars Field " ), the former parade ground of the city, can be found on the remains of the Montreal city walls.