ARCHITECTS Brassard et Warren

ARTIST Claude Vermette

INAUGURATED 14 October 1966

This is a very plain station. Its large volume, built cut-and-cover, is walled with eggshell-coloured ceramic. The floors are done in brown tile and black granite.

The pale expanses of the walls are punctuated by panels of coloured tiles rising to the ceiling, each panel with a different colour and pattern. Although they are the work of the noted ceramist Claude Vermette, these panels, installed during the station's construction, were originally not construed as an artwork, so that it would be easier for the transit company to remove them if it had decided to do so.

In the centre area, the staircases are divided from the platform by screens of orange tiles. This is the only part of the station with benches, and the rest of the platform area suffers from a complete lack of seating.

Both the shabby kiosk and the vacant lot it stands in were supposed to be only temporary; repeated projects to build something there have not come to anything yet, though yet another plan, an UQAM pavilion, is currently being considered.

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