Place des Montréalaises: Montreal’s Urban Meadow Tribute

Nine years ago, the City of Montreal made a quiet announcement that signalled a major shift: a new civic space, designed by Lemay in collaboration with project partner and independent artist Angela Silver, would be built to honour 21 women who helped shape the city.

Not with statues or street signs, but with something alive that could grow, change, and be experienced: The Place des Montréalaises, a sprawling inclined meadow and civic plaza that floats above the Ville-Marie Expressway, reconnecting Old Montreal to the downtown core and offering a corrective on what remembrance looks like in the city.

21 women, names engraved

“The project has different layers of appreciation at the scale of the city, the space, and the user,” explains the design team at Lemay. “We carefully developed the concept to create a dialogue with the monumental context, while offering a space of respite in the city.”

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