Du Collège (Metro Montreal)

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View of one of the platforms

Du Collège is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the Saint-Laurent arrondissement at the intersection of Rue du Collège and Boulevard Décarie. Trains on orange line 2 run here . In 2006, 2,632,497 passengers used the station, which is 34th place out of a total of 68 stations on Metro Montreal .

Building

The station designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand was created in the form of a tunnel station . While the walls are clad with terracotta tiles, the floors are made of granite and sandstone arranged in geometric patterns. The benches are made of the same materials. Stairs and escalators lead to two distribution levels at both ends of the platforms. In the southern one, an Ionic column dominates , which supports the hall ceiling. In the north a large skylight lets in the daylight.

The platform level with two side platforms is 17.1 meters deep . The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from station end to station start, are 777.24 meters to Côte-Vertu and 1281.69 meters to De la Savane . There are connections to ten bus routes and a night bus route operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . Nearby is the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec .

art

Terracotta brick sculpture

Various stained glass decorate the northern distribution level. A 4.5 m long and 1.8 m high leaded glass window by Pierre Osterrath symbolically creates a connection between the station's Ionic column and the history of the formerly independent city of Saint-Laurent. Using the same technique, the same artist designed two more windows on the landing. The larger (9 × 1.8 m) represents the surrounding landscape before urbanization, the smaller (4 × 1.8 m) the local industry. Another stained glass window called Éducation ("Education") was made by Lyse Charland-Favretti. The 9.3 m wide and 1.53 m high work represents two high schools in the vicinity, as well as various school subjects.

Another lead glass window by Lyse Charland-Favretti can be found in the southern distribution level. The 6.82 m high and 2.17 m wide Industrie plant presents air currents in shades of purple, pink and blue, a reference to the historically important aviation industry in Saint-Laurent. Aurelio Sandonato created a sculpture made of patterned terracotta bricks hanging on the wall. The 3 m high and 4.8 m wide work is reminiscent of an urban landscape from a bird's eye view.

history

The station opened on January 9, 1984, along with the section from Plamondon . For more than a year and a half, Du Collège was the western terminus of the orange line, until it was extended to Côte-Vertu on October 27, 1986. Name giver is the Rue du Collège, named after the nearby Collège Saint-Laurent. This high school was founded in 1847 by the Congregation of the Holy Cross and has been a Cégep since secularization in 1974 .

Web links

Commons : De La Savane (Metro Montreal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Station Du Collège - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Station Du Collège - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  3. ↑ Trois vitraux, 1982. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  4. ↑ a b Deux vitraux, 1982. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  5. ^ Sculpture murale, verse 1982. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  6. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on April 23, 2012 (English).
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