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One of the biggest sensations when the initial network was opened, this station is a good example of the more attractive styles of '60s architecture. Done in pale colours, it is built out from a large internal volume.
From the mezzanine, a large stairway leads down past massive twin pillars, rhombuses in cross-section, carved with geometric shapes and linked with jointed blue and green beams. These pillars tower over and surround a staircase leading down to the Côte-Vertu platform, presenting a startling aspect from below.
The bridge over the platforms is unusual in that only one side is open. The other stairwell to the Côte-Vertu platform, and both stairwells to the Montmorency platform, are enclosed, rather narrow corridors.
The main staircase, as well as the bridge leading over the tracks, gives an excellent view of a large mural affixed to the high wall of the volume. An oval-shaped ceramic work entitled Le Poète dans l'Univers (The Poet in the Universe), it represents the motions of the stars and planets, represented by their astrological symbols. It links this celestial dance with the work of Québécois poets such as Émile Nelligan, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, and Octave Crémazie, represented by wrought-iron masks and by quotations from their poems. This monumental work was unveiled on 12 March 1968.
The mezzanine area is situated directly under the Crémazie Nord entrance, and features two staircases on either side of the entrance to a long, curving corridor towards the Crémazie Sud entrance. The latter entrance is little more than a staircase and landing built into the ground floor of a building.
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The Crémazie Nord entrance opens on both the front and the back of an office block, connected by a bridge over the mouth of the corridor mentioned above. To the rear of the building is a bus loop.
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