Place-Saint-Henri (Montreal Metro)

Place -Saint -Henri is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Le Sud -Ouest at the intersection of Rue Saint- Jacques and Rue Saint -Ferdinand. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 2,141,667 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 43rd rank among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Julien Hébert and Jean -Louis Lalonde station was built in an open design, which gives it a very spacious feel. Several adjacent layered vault with decreasing outwards height adorn the ceiling. In the side walls of high triangular cavities are embedded, which are covered with yellow enamel and let in the natural light from above. Long stairs and escalators lead up to the distributor level with skylights in the form of hexagons and equilateral triangles. From there, the three outputs can be achieved. One is located in a pavilion within a terminal loop, two others lead either side of the Rue Saint -Jacques directly to the outside.

In 17.7 meters depth, the platform level is with two side platforms. Their walls are covered with bricks of different colors to give an extremely colorful effect. The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from end station to station early, be 1450.88 meters to Vendôme (longest distance between stations on the Île de Montréal) and 579.60 meters to Lionel Groulx -. There are four connections to bus lines and night bus of the Société de transport de Montréal.

Art

From the ceiling of the spacious hall station a mobile by Jacques de Tonnancour hangs. The nameless factory is 7.6 meters high and has a diameter of 3 meters. It consists of three aluminum tubes whose inner surfaces are enamelled. The mobile rotates with the wind, a small motor was originally installed.

Also on the artistic design of the station architect Julien Hébert was involved. He created a 20 meter long mural of enamelled bricks. It represents the words of Bonheur d'occasion, the title of the first novel of the French-Canadian author Gabrielle Roy. The plot of the novel takes place in the Montreal district of Saint -Henri in the 1940s from.

On the Place Saint -Henri stood since 1893 on a fountain, a monument in honor of the French explorer Jacques Cartier. The work of sculptor Joseph- Arthur Vincent showed nearly a hundred years increasingly to weather damage. 1992 Jules Lasalle created a copy of a synthetic material, while the original statue was placed in a light well of the underlying metro station.

History

The opening of the station on 28 April 1980 fro along with the section of Bonaventure. A little more than a year was Place -Saint -Henri, the western terminus of the orange line until it was extended after Snowdon on September 7, 1981. It is named after the Place Saint -Henri, a small public square between the Rue Saint -Jacques and Rue Notre -Dame. It received its name from one built in 1810 chapel, which is dedicated to the canonized German Emperor Henry II. During the planning phase, the designation Les Tanneries was provided.

1989 emerged in the Station Place -Saint -Henri several scenes in the film Jesus of Montreal by Denys Arcand.