Du Collège (Montreal Metro)

Du Collège is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Saint -Laurent at the intersection of Rue du Collège and Boulevard Décarie. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 2,632,497 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 34th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand station was built in the form of a tunnel station. While the walls are covered with terracotta tiles, the floors are made of granite and sandstone, arranged in geometric patterns. The seats are made of the same materials. Stairs and escalators leading to two distribution levels at both ends of the platforms. In the south is dominated by an Ionic column, which supports the hall ceiling. In the Northern makes a great skylight shine in the sunlight.

In 17.1 meters depth, the platform level is with two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 777.24 meters to Côte- Vertu and 1281.69 meters to De la Savane. There are connections to ten bus routes and a night bus the Société de transport de Montréal. Nearby is the Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec.

Art

Several stained glass windows adorn the northern distribution level. A 4.5 m long and 1.8 m high stained-glass windows by Pierre Osterrath symbolically represents a connection between the Ionic column of the station and the history of the formerly independent city of Saint- Laurent. In the same technique, the same artist designed two additional windows on the landing. The larger (9 x 1.8 m ) represents the surrounding landscape in front of urbanization, the smaller (4 x 1,8 m), the local industry. Another stained glass window titled Éducation ( "education" ) comes from lysis Charland - Favretti. The 9.3 m wide and 1.53 m high image shows two high schools is in the neighborhood, as well as various school subjects.

Another stained glass window of lysis Charland - Favretti can be found in the southern distribution level. The 6.82 m high and 2.17 m wide business industry represents air currents in violet, pink and blue tones, a reference to the historically important aerospace industry in Saint- Laurent. From Aurelio Sandonato comes a hanging on the wall sculpture made of patterned terracotta bricks. The 3 m high and 4.8 m wide work is reminiscent of a city landscape from a bird's perspective.

History

The opening of the station took place on 9 January 1984, forth together with the portion of Plamondon. While more than one and a half years, you Collège was the western terminus of the orange line until it was extended to Côte - Vertu on 27 October 1986. It is named after the Rue du Collège, named after the nearby Collège Saint- Laurent. This school was founded in 1847 by the Congregation of the Holy Cross, and since the secularization in 1974, one Cégep.