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Montreal Fine Arts Museum Public Sculpture Garden
Montreal Fine Arts Museum Public Sculpture Garden
1380, Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Ville-Marie, Montréal, Canada
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Montreal Fine Arts Museum Public Sculpture Garden
1380, Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Ville-Marie, Montréal, Canada
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YEAR
2012
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$0 - 10K
Working closely with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Urban Design Unit of the Planning Department of the Ville de Montréal sought to create a multidisciplinary design team for the creation of a urban sculpture garden and city greening project. Under the direction of architect Wade Eide of the Urban Design Unit, the team included landscape architects VLAN paysages, lighting designer Éclairage Public, and artist Adad Hannah. The project creates an extension of the Museum in the form of an outdoor exhibition space with strong white lighting and light-colored ground surfaces serving as neutral backgrounds for the sculptures located in the public spaces.The project aims to create a more unified urban environment for the three Museum pavilions located at the intersection of Du Musée Avenue and the prestigious Sherbrooke Street. It includes a major modification of street geometry to increase pedestrian space. Emphasis is also placed on forging connections with the natural history of Montreal and her ancient mountain, Mount Royal, on whose southern flank the Museum is situated. The incorporation of very large tree pits filled with shrubbery evoke the rich vegetation of the mountain, while the selection and placement of urban furniture and plinths for the sculptures composed from limestone blocks symbolize the limestone of the substrata of Montreal rising up from the tree pits and from the concrete sidewalks.
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