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Champs de Mars Montréal - City Hall Plaza
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Champs de Mars Montréal - City Hall Plaza
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$5M - 10M
Champ de mars | Citizen’s Field2nd prize in national competitionIt would be an authentic public space.Representing the city itself as well as it citizens.The plaza within the plaza would be an evolving landscape echoing montreal’s constantly morphing identity... echoing its climate, its animation as well as its civic commitment and political moods.Between old and new Montreal,Between the unveiled historic foundation, a think stone wall, and a new urban front on Viger setting a transparent and reflecting north side to the plaza.The Main Portal, Saint-Laurent street, will be built-street, acknowledging its iconic value for Montreal on the only site where it can be exposed ,east, west, over and under.The city icon will echo a citizen icon, le ‘’Porte-voix’’, a suspended stage where the citizen’s views would be enlarged, strongly expressed, facing , eye to eye, with the Mayor’s terrasse.From Saint-Laurent’s Portal to the ‘’Porte-voix’’, a green roof and promenade would ascend to the east to establish the connection. It would cover a a sequence of Café, the real debat spaces, the would anchor onto the Champ de Mars Metro.A triplex high glass facade, would morph from a landscape fence to the west up to Ferron’s art work to the East. The glass would gradually shift to a convex form to expand along the transit the silhouettes and shades of the citizen, to enhance their representation. The wall would plunge underground to unveil the Metro and establish a view, the only one of the network, onto the city.In this re-establish city canvas, a void can now be reanimated.The Saint-Martin river would flow again as a thin film of water, or ice.The ghost Craig Street, now Saint-Antoine, would ‘’float’’ between two reflecting pool.The Highway, under a glass floor extending the reflecting pool would animate light flares the plaza.The season cycle expressed by a pool shifting to an icy plane in the winter.The citizen leaving a temporary mark onto the city.On the plaza, a million lantern echoing all of Montreal registered voters, the ‘’active citizens’’, would echo Montreal’s mood.One citizen, one vote, one light, one ip address and control.One representation in the city.Montrealers represented in the administrative heart of the City.Montreal represented by an evolving landscape expressing is distinctive identity.On a plaza anchored to its Main street.
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