Vendôme (Metro Montreal)

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View of the platforms

Vendôme is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the arrondissement of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce at the intersection of Boulevard De Maisonneuve and Avenue Vendôme. Trains on orange line 2 run here . In 2006, 4,825,779 passengers used the station, which corresponds to 11th place out of a total of 68 stations on Metro Montreal .

Building

The station, designed by the architects Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas , was created using an open construction method . Inclined concrete walls, rounded seats and glowing stripes give it a modern look. The distribution level, illuminated by daylight, is located on the surface in a pavilion . Its rounded shapes in blue and gray are reminiscent of the local trains that run on the nearby railway line. A bus turning loop surrounds the pavilion.

The platform level with two side platforms is 6.1 meters deep . The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from the end of the station to the start of the station, are 1,407.32 meters to Villa-Maria and 1,450.88 meters to Place-Saint-Henri (longest station distance on the Île de Montréal ). There are connections to seven bus routes and one night bus route operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . The Vendôme station of the Agence métropolitaine de transport can be reached via a pedestrian tunnel , where local trains run to Gare Lucien-L'Allier and to Vaudreuil-Dorion - Hudson , Blainville - Saint-Jérôme and Candiac .

art

Stained glass

Marcelle Ferron , who belonged to the surrealist artist group Automatistes , designed an abstract glass painting to decorate the distribution level . It takes up the entire width of the eastern wall of the pavilion. With its gold and red tones, it is reminiscent of Ferron's main work in the Champ-de-Mars station . Steel rods attached to the window break the light into a kaleidoscopic pattern.

history

The station opened on September 7, 1981, along with the section between Place-Saint-Henri and Snowdon . It is named after the Avenue de Vendôme, although the exact origin has not been passed down. The street got its current name in 1910, shortly after the incorporation of the city of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The use of the paricle “de” suggests that the street was named after the dukes of Vendôme and not after the city of Vendôme or Place Vendôme in Paris .

Web links

Commons : Vendôme (Metro Montreal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vendôme station - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 27, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Station Vendôme - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 27, 2012 (French).
  3. ^ Vitrail et sculpture, 1979. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 27, 2012 (French).
  4. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on February 27, 2012 (English).
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Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 26 "  N , 73 ° 36 ′ 13.9"  W.