Promise Ring: The Ring, Place Ville Marie, Montreal, Quebec
The 30-metre-diameter stainless steel ring fits snugly between Place Ville Marie’s north buildings and is suspended above a new grand staircase to the elevated plaza. Photo by Jean-François Savaria
PROJECT The Ring, Place Ville Marie, Montreal, Quebec
DESIGNER Claude Cormier et associés
TEXT Elsa Lam
When Place Ville Marie opened in downtown Montreal in 1962, the design, by Henry Cobb working with I.M. Pei, included an elevated grand plaza, bookended by equally grand staircases. One of those stairs?facing McGill Avenue and leading to the gates of McGill University?was displaced, for over 50 years, by an entrance to the complex?s underground parking.
In 2018, the current owner, Ivanhoe Cambridge, set out to revitalize the raised esplanade, working with Sid Lee Architecture to add massive skylights connecting the plaza to the restaurant spaces below, and restoring the north staircase as it had been originally designed. To cap off the $200-million project, the owner asked local landscape architecture firm Claude Cormier et associés to create an installation that would complete the space above the new grand stair. The Ring frames a vista through Montreal’s past history, and also considers the future transformation of the site through the competition-winning concept design for ?McGill College: Reinventing the Avenue,? developed by civiliti + Mandaworks with SNC-Lavalin for the Ville de Montréal. Section and plan by civiliti + Mandaworks with SNC-Lavalin for the V...
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