Square-Victoria-OACI (Montreal Metro)

Square - Victoria is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie among the Victoria Square, a public square in the center of the Quartier international. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 3,693,589 passengers used the station; this corresponds to 22nd place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Irving Sager designed the station in a strict international style. Typical of this style and the architectural flavor of the 1960s are the ausgedehenten unadorned surfaces of walls, corridors and access areas, which most clearly in the Montreal Metro system is expressed in Square - Victoria. The walls are covered with gray, beige and gold-colored bricks. In 16.2 meters depth, the platform level is with two side platforms. From the above it at the distribution level of two long pedestrian tunnel leading to four different outputs. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 392.60 meters to 356.60 meters to Place Bonaventure and - d'Armes.

There are connections to six bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. The Station Square - Victoria is integrated into the sprawling Montreal underground city. Underground accessible include the headquarters of the ICAO, the Skyscraper Tour Bell and Tour de la Bourse, the Banque Nationale du Canada, the Centre de Commerce mondial de Montréal and several hotel buildings. Also within walking distance are the underground metro stations Bonaventure and Place - d'Armes. Additional points of interest include Basilica of Saint- Patrick de Montréal and the Tour de la Banque Royale.

Art

A stylistic contrast to the station complex provides the entrance to the Rue Saint- Antoine, who leads one of the few in Montreal directly from outdoors into the ground and is not integrated into a building. 1967 gave the RATP one of those well-known Art Nouveau entrances of interwoven iron girders, the Hector Guimard had created at the beginning of the 20th century for the Paris Metro. The suggestion came from Mayor Jean Drapeau, who had seen in an information visit to Paris, as one of Guimard inputs at the station Étoile was demolished. The Montreal Guimard input can be no particular Paris Metro station assign, but is composed of the modular parts of different originals.

On the wall of the northern entrance tunnel a mural made ​​of laminated plastic is attached. The work of artist Jean -Paul Mousseau is a series of triangular elements shared by a striped background. In the style of Op Art, the triangles point in the direction of the platforms. From 1976, the artwork was in the southern entrance tunnel, but had to give way to a new ventilation shaft after three decades and can be found at its present location since 2007.

History

The opening of the station took place on 6 February 1967 ago, together with the short section from Place - d'Armes. Square - Victoria spent a week temporary terminus of the orange line until it was extended to Bonaventure on February 13, 1967. The namesake of the station is the Victoria Square, an existing since 1813 public square in the city center, which forms internationally since the conclusion of an urban development project the center of the district. In 1860 he was renamed in honor of Queen Victoria, on the occasion of a visit of her son, the future King Edward VII