Place-Saint-Henri (Metro Montreal)

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View of the platforms

Place-Saint-Henri is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the Arrondissement of Le Sud-Ouest at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue Saint-Ferdinand. Trains on orange line 2 run here . In 2006, 2,141,667 passengers used the station, which is 43rd place out of a total of 68 stations on Metro Montreal .

Building

The station designed by Julien Hébert and Jean-Louis Lalonde was created using an open construction method , which gives it a very spacious impression. The ceiling is adorned with several stacked vaults with an outwardly decreasing height. In the side walls there are high triangular cavities, which are covered with yellow enamel and let in daylight from above. Long stairs and escalators lead up to the distribution level with skylights in the form of hexagons and equilateral triangles. From there three exits can be reached. One is in a pavilion within a bus turning loop, two others lead directly outside on both sides of Rue Saint-Jacques.

The platform level with two side platforms is 17.7 meters deep . Their walls are clad with bricks in different colors, which creates an extremely colorful effect. The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from the end of the station to the beginning of the station, are 1,450.88 meters to Vendôme (longest station distance on the Île de Montréal ) and 579.60 meters to Lionel-Groulx . There are connections to four bus routes and a night bus route operated by the Société de transport de Montréal .

art

Jacques Cartier statue

A Jacques de Tonnancour mobile hangs down from the ceiling of the spacious station hall. The nameless work is 7.6 meters high and 3 meters in diameter. It consists of three aluminum tubes, the insides of which are enamelled . The mobile rotates with the airstream, originally a small motor was installed.

Architect Julien Hébert was also involved in the artistic design of the station. He created a mural made of enameled bricks over 20 meters long. It represents the words Bonheur d'occasion , the title of the first novel by the French-Canadian author Gabrielle Roy . The plot of the novel takes place in the Montreal district of Saint-Henri in the 1940s.

Since 1893 a monument in honor of the French explorer Jacques Cartier has stood on a fountain on Place Saint-Henri . The work of the sculptor Joseph-Arthur Vincent showed increasing weather damage after almost a hundred years. In 1992, Jules Lasalle made a copy out of synthetic material, while the original statue was moved to a light shaft in the metro station below.

history

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

In 1989, several scenes from the film Jesus of Montreal by Denys Arcand were shot in the Place-Saint-Henri station .

Web links

Commons : Place-Saint-Henri (Metro Montreal)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Station Place-Saint-Henri - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 25, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Place-Saint-Henri station - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 5, 2012 (French).
  3. ^ Sculpture mobile, 1976. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 25, 2012 (French).
  4. ^ Bonheur d'occasion, 1976. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 25, 2012 (French).
  5. ^ Monument to Jacques Cartier. In: L'art public à Montréal. City of Montreal, accessed February 25, 2012 (French).
  6. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on February 25, 2012 (English).
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