Georges-Vanier (Montreal Metro)

Georges- Vanier is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Le Sud -Ouest at the intersection of Rue Saint- Antoine and the Boulevard Georges- Vanier. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 736 976 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 64th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Architect Pierre -W. Major designed the station in a postmodern style. It's such a predominantly oblique ago at right angles to loosen the large interior space visually. Dark gray and deep blue tiles adorning the walls and contrast with the pale gray concrete. The constructed as a bridge distribution level has an irregular shape. The platform level at 17.7 meters depth has two side platforms. On the surface, a structure made of glass and concrete is used as a station building, while next to a light shaft that allows natural light to shine down in the form of a truncated cone.

The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 758.60 meters to 530.60 meters Lionel - Groulx and to Lucien- L'Allier. Georges- Vanier Montreal is the only Metro station where not connected to a bus by the Société de transport de Montréal. In the vicinity is the Centre canadien d'architecture, the Canadian Museum of Architecture.

Art

As a catcher on the northern platform is an oversized sculpture. When work Un arbre dans le parc ( "A Tree in the Park" ) of the sculptor Michel Dernuet is a concrete column that rises 12.8 meters in height and in an abstract way has the shape of a tree. The "trunk" supporting the ceiling while hanging on the " branches " lamps that illuminate the platform and distribution level.

History

The opening of the station on 28 April 1980 in conjunction with the section between Bonaventure and Place -Saint -Henri. It is named after the Boulevard Georges- Vanier, named after Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada from 1959 until 1967. He was born in a house a few meters from the later station and was the first French-Canadian, the Office of the Governor General held.