One of North America?s largest public transportation projects, the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) will transform the Greater Montreal Region public transport experience with some of the nation?s most inspiring, meaningful and transformative architecture and design.
Award-winning firms Lemay, Perkins+Will and Bisson Fortin will design an integrated, sustainable system of light-rail train stations, woven into urban, industrial and natural landscapes, as part of NouvLR General Partnership?s recently won contract for the 67-kilometre network, the largest integrated urban design project in the history of Montreal.
?The strength of the design is derived from the project?s architectural programming and signature interacting with each other, the succession of passenger tableaux and the cinematic poetry of mass transport,? said Andrew King, partner and design principal at Lemay. ?In contrast, the essence of the public transportation experience emerges in its moments of stillness and the dynamics of vertical movement.?
The network will connect Montréal-Trudeau International Airport with Montreal?s downtown core as well as the south and north shores of the Greater Montreal Region. The REM?s goal is to bring efficient, sustainable mobility options to Greater Montreal citizens. Construction is set to begin in April 2018.
?The REM is a reflection of the same innovation and ingenuity that has made Montreal one of the world?s leading cultural and economic centres,? said Jeff Doble,...