De La Concorde (Metro Montreal)
De La Concorde is a subway station in Laval , a suburb of Montreal . It is located in the Laval-des-Rapides district on the Boulevard de la Concorde. Trains on Orange Line 2 of Metro Montreal run here .
Building
The station designed by André Marcotte was created in the form of a tunnel station , with the exception of the central part, which was carried out in open construction . This creates a spacious, cube-shaped interior supported by slender pillars with walls made of concrete and chrome steel. The top part of the cube protrudes from the ground and is provided with skylights all around. These allow daylight to shine in and produce an effect that is reminiscent of a sundial , with reflections that change depending on the time of day. The walls of the two side platforms are clad with ultramarine blue tiles and large round windows made of safety glass surround photographs of blades of grass that have been enlarged several times, which puts the viewer in the perspective of insects.
The escalator shaft from the distribution level to the entrance hall also protrudes from the floor, in the form of a glazed cylinder, reminiscent of the “Fosterito” station entrances that Norman Foster designed for the Bilbao Metro . An elongated concrete block with large window facades serves as the entrance pavilion . Its front facade is provided with an oversized Metro logo, which is also illuminated at night. The area east of the entrance is landscaped, with benches and a terrace on the roof of the station cube.
The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from the end of the station to the beginning of the station, are 2073.6 meters to Cartier and 847.6 meters to Montmorency . There are connections to three bus routes operated by the Société de transport de Laval . Immediately next to the subway station is a train station on the AMT suburban line, which connects Lucien-L'Allier station in downtown Montreal with Saint-Jérôme .
art
Next to the footpath from the station entrance to the roof terrace is the sculpture Nos allers-retours (“Our there and back”) by Yves Gendreau, a structure of intertwined metal tubes in the line colors of the metro and suburban train.
history
The station opened on April 28, 2007, together with the Henri-Bourassa- Montmorency section of the orange line. It is named after the Boulevard de la Concorde, named after the Place de la Concorde in Paris . The AMT station was also opened in 2007, replacing the Saint-Martin station 1.65 km to the north.
Web links
- STM website about the De La Concorde station (French)
- Detailed information about the De La Concorde station (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Station De La Concorde - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 25, 2012 (French).
- ^ Station De La Concorde - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 25, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Nos allers-retours. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 28, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Nos allers-retours. Société de transport de Montréal, accessed April 28, 2012 (French).
- ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on April 25, 2012 (English).
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Cartier ← Cote-Vertu |
Line 2 (orange) |
Montmorency Montmorency → |
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Coordinates: 45 ° 33 ′ 38.6 " N , 73 ° 42 ′ 35" W.