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Plage de l'Horloge

Claude Cormier (Canadian landscape architect, born ca. 1961)
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Alternative Title
Clock Tower Beach
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/166423
Date
2009-2012
Description
Marina front beach, looking towards entrance building and clock tower; Part of the redevelopment of Montreal’s Old Port. A stroll along the quay opens a panorama to the visitor: the St. Lawrence River and Jacques Cartier Bridge towering over Île Sainte-Hélène. The project created an (artificial) urban beach at the Pointe de l’Horloge, with its elegant clock tower built in 1921, and along the lower quay bordering the marina. A huge stairway-ramp makes the venue accessible to all. Beach umbrellas and weeping willows, brightly colored chairs and fixtures, showers and mist stations (swimming is not allowed), a boardwalk, silky sand, and a refreshment stand were added. The second part of the project added a parking area, clearly defined by rows of trees that reproduces the triangular layout of the quay. At the far west end of the site is a “porcupine” installation, shooting up from a mound around which a roundabout loops. It is composed of hundreds of sticks in three shades of blue which generate an intriguing pixilation effect. Source: Claude Cormier + Associes [website]; www.claudecormier.com/en/ (accessed 5/9/2014)
Type of Work
dock; bathing beach
Subject
architecture, cityscape, seascape, Boats and boating, City planning, parks (recreation areas), Rivers, urban renewal, Twenty-first century
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