Art & Architecture

This station unfortunately combines a dull decor and a cramped feeling. The crossover level is linked to the platforms by narrow stairwells and corridors whose high walls and ceilings make them feel cramped and congested even when traffic is light.

The walls are finished partly in straw-coloured blocks and partly in brown-on-tan mosaic, with the brown tiles forming a gradient effect; the seating niches are in a reversed cream-on-brown pattern. One distinctive feature is the low walls that run alongside the station’s escalators and frame their heads and feet.

The upper areas of the station are as restrictive as the lower ones, including the ticket hall, the two headhouses, and the stairways and corridors that link them. The ticket hall is awkwardly located in a corner, at right angles between the axis of the stairwell to the platforms and that of the stairs and corridor to the headhouses.

The Sauvé Nord headhouse is situated directly over the ticket hall, to which it is connected by two staircases separated by a concession space occupying a sort of bridge. The headhouse, like its counterpart, is a low structure in ridged concrete, with a screen wall extending outward near the doors and a projecting roof forming an awning.

Back at the ticket hall level, between the staircases up to the main headhouse, a narrow corridor passes underneath the road to reach the tiny Sauvé Sud headhouse. Presumably this headhouse, which is little more than a covered stairway, owes its diminutive size to its position hemmed in between the sidewalk and a cemetery.

The arrival of the Mascouche commuter train turned Sauvé into an intermodal station. Unfortunately, the train station, built on an embankment, is fully 170 metres away from the Sauvé Sud exit, the longest distance between the two components of any intermodal station in the network. Moreover, due to construction difficulties, the main train station building was ultimately located even farther (270 metres) away, south of the intersection of Rue Saint-Denis and Rue du Port-Royal. This is a small building with a brown brick ground floor and an elevator and stairwell tower clad in grey metal and glass, connected with the platform by a partially enclosed walkway.

Before this was opened, a secondary entrance was built on Rue Berri. This access, a rudimentary concrete structure with a mostly open staircase, has been retained and fortunately offers a shorter walk between the metro and train stations.