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Like its neighbour De L'Église, this station's width was restricted by the presence of soft Utica shale in the surrounding bedrock. It is therefore constructed with platforms one on top of the other, rather than with the usual side-by-side plan. However, the link between the platforms is via a simple staircase rather than the other station's characteristic labyrinths. The traveller's path is therefore much easier.
The walls are clad in glazed red-orange brick, with diamond-shaped patterns at platform level.
Large abstract stained-glass windows liven up the station, among the deepest in the network, brightening the long climb from the platform to the kiosk. (One of their designers, Pierre Osterrath, also worked on the large stained-glass window at Berri-UQAM.) The station's extreme depth is also reduced in force by the low ceilings of the stairwells. (This station is the deepest in the network, with its lower platform reaching 27 metres.)
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The windows are supplied with light by a shaft which also provides light to the mezzanine and ventilation to the platform levels. The stairwells and kiosk are wrapped around it.
Part of the shaft's opening is a slanting roof in the kiosk, whose shape is repeated in the kiosk's windows. The kiosk is joined at its exterior to a bus loop and apartment complex.
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Image x-section.jpg from a booklet (no title) on the 1978 green line expansion. BTM, September 1978.