Place-d'Armes (Montreal Metro)

Place - d'Armes is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie, at the intersection of Rue Saint -Urbain and Viger Avenue. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 4,746,418 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 14th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

The J. Warunkiewicz designed station is located on the outskirts of Montreal Old Town. Your distributor level is located at the Palais des congrès de Montréal. The western exit leads directly to the ground floor of this convention center, the eastern to the outside. 4.6 meters below the surface is the resulting in an open design platform level with two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 356.60 meters to Square - Victoria and 370.60 meters from Champ -de- Mars.

There are two connections to bus routes and three night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. The station Place - d'Armes is integrated into the sprawling Montreal underground city. Pedestrian tunnels lead to Complexe Guy Favreau - ( administrative center of the federal government ) and Complexe Desjardins to skyscrapers. Also within walking distance are the underground metro stations Square Victoria and Place-des -Arts. Other attractions nearby include the Basilica of Notre- Dame de Montreal, Place d'Armes with the Maisonneuve Monument, the Vieux Séminaire de Saint- Sulpice and the China Town.

Art

The station area is rather plain, you can see on the wall plates of corrugated stainless steel. Artistically designed, however, is the connecting tunnel to the metro station Place-des -Arts. Christian Kiopini designed 2002/ 03 the walls with plywood, glass and acrylic. There are three areas which, by means of their color and the geological formation, they remember each other. Chambre secrète ( " secret chamber " ) at the western end relates the door to the vault of a former bank with a. It reflects the light of the central plant Contre forts ( " promontory "). In the midst of a rotunda is rayons ( "rays" ), along the lines of which run to a cone that points to an imaginary point on the surface.

History

The opening of the station took place on 14 October 1966, together with the section in the direction of Henri- Bourassa. Place - d'Armes part of the basic network of the metro for a few months and was the terminus of the orange line. This was extended southwestward on February 6, 1967 by Square - Victoria, a week later, according to Bonaventure. The namesake of the station is about 250 meters southeast located Place d'Armes, the former Montreal parade ground.