The esplanade Viger, on the edge of Chinatown is intended to be both an evocation of this Montreal quality and a nod to the Garden of Montreal in China. The esplanade is a garden designed on a huge structural concrete slab. Previously, concrete beach without great attractions, the new garden area is designed like a huge thirty tray from which emerge and oval mounds connected by typical limestone trails Montreal. At the heart of these mounds are planted ornamental crab apple, tree emblematic of the city of Montreal that blooms in May in a symphony of pink. Delegates and other hikers venture into the forest, they enter as if they were entering a giant bouquet of flowers.
The Esplanade Palace is the epitome of contemporary public space as a place of attraction, comfort, friendliness, sociability and plastic exploration. The seasons there is underlined by the changing color of all plants throughout the year. The massive spirea are arranged so that the visitor has the feeling of being overwhelmed by the vegetation. On a cold place, vast and empty landscape intervention enabled the transformation of the place to make it easy, comfortable and fun.
The high visibility of this project helps meet the social and cultural recognition requirements sought by our profession. Improving quality of life and urban landscape of the people who run and work in Chinatown and the International District.
Technical challenge and innovation above all inspirational challenge, the new Convention Center combines a winter garden filled with false trunks of trees roses, glass walls with multiple bright colors and an esplanade adorned with pink flowers in spring. The architecture, landscape architecture and artistic intervention have only one, and the result is more singular.
