ville-marie Square Dorchester et Place du Canada: réaménagement

[ToxiK]

il y a 11 minutes, Rusty a dit :

Jaurais voulu avoir ca

c'est ce que j'allais dire.  Ça noue prend quelque-chose comme ça à Montréal.

[Lake]

On 27/02/2018 at 12:27 PM, Rusty said:

Magnifique ... par contre la fontaine qui a lair en plastique ben la ?

En un peu plus foncé, ça pourrait facilement évoquer les fontaines et autres ornements en fonte peinturée de l'époque victorienne.

Dominicos

[UrbMtl]

Ce sont des rendus 3D. Attendons un peu. 

[Rocco]

Si ça se trouve la fontaine sera une originale venant de France qu'ils auront préalablement scié sur le côté pour justifier le côté funky de Claude Cormier architure de paysage.... 

[ScarletCoral]

Une demi-fontaine!

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/dorchester-square-to-get-a-victorian-fountain-in-renovation-project
 

Dorchester Square to get a Victorian fountain in renovation project

The planned fountain in Dorchester Square will be "a timeless water feature typical of Montreal’s mid-nineteenth century ‘belle-époque’ period."

 Andy Riga, Montreal Gazette
Published on: May 22, 2018 | Last Updated: May 22, 2018 5:17 PM EDT

The city of Montreal has started work on the northern section of Dorchester Square. This sketch shows the Victorian-style fountain that is planned.
CLAUDE CORMIER AND ASSOCIATES

Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal is about to get bigger.

Work started Tuesday on a long-delayed, $8.9-million renovation that will expand the public space, adding lawned areas, a water fountain and pedestrian bridges. 

The focus is on the northern tip of the square. The rest of the square was refurbished in 2010.

As part of the project, the square will be extended over two of the five lanes of traffic on Dorchester Square St., which sits between the square and the Dominion Square Building and connects Peel and Metcalfe Sts.

Some of the new public space will be grassed over, other parts covered in granite paving stones, according to the city of Montreal public tender document. Two wood and steel footbridges will connect the current part of the square with the new section.

A cast-iron Victorian-style water fountain with three basins is to be installed in the new area. Images in the city document indicate the fountain will be more than 10 metres tall.

A life-size, aluminum statue of a woodpecker with a prominent red crest will be fastened to the side of the fountain, about half way up.

Sketch shows how the northern section of Dorchester Square will look after renovation project is completed.
CLAUDE CORMIER AND ASSOCIATES / MONWP

The new section of the square was designed by landscape architects at Claude Cormier and Associates.

In a presentation about the project, the company described the planned fountain as “a timeless water feature typical of Montreal’s mid-nineteenth century ‘belle-époque’ period.”

The company noted that the square’s northern edge was cut off when accesses to an underground parking garage were built and Square Dorchester St. was widened. The original diagonal Victorian paths radiating from the centre of the square were sliced by two ramps leading to the parking.

“Two arched pedestrian bridges (will) restore these axes without interrupting traffic flows, effectively positioning the park thresholds closer to Ste-Catherine St. to plug into large volumes of pedestrians that circulate on this emblematic commercial street,” the landscape architects say.

Other improvements are also in the works.

Sketch shows an overview of Dorchester Square after completion of renovation project.
CLAUDE CORMIER AND ASSOCIATES / MONWP

Workers will restore a vespasienne in the square. Built in 1931, the octagonal building was originally a public washroom. New lighting and street furniture will also be installed. And the roof slab of the underground parking will be waterproofed.

The city says the project is to be completed in November.

Work on the northern section of the square was initially expected to be completed in 2011.

 

D'autres images sur le site de la firme d'architecture : http://www.claudecormier.com/projet/square-dorchester-nord/

 

[Laurentia]

Bravo pour l'aggrandissement du parc sur la rue du Square Dorchester, bravo pour les ponts piétonniers... mais la demi-fontaine??? Si veut y aller pour un aménagement "classique", assumons-le! Pas du semi-classique semi-moderne.

[Miska]

J'adore la demi fontaine ! Un peu de ludique dans un aménagement classique.

[vincenzo]

This type of park is exactly what is needed between St Laurent and St Urbain in the quadrilateral facing the Palais des congress.

[Memphis 22]

31 mai 2018

Les travaux sont commencés !!! 

C'est le plus beau parc du centre-ville

Monument aux héros de la guerre des Boers par George William Hill (1907)

[Rocco]

Enfin!!! (Juste 10 ans plus tard)