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Espace 67
By : Lemay
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 14th edition
Discipline : Industrial Design & Product Design
Categories : Industrial Design / Street Furniture : Platinum Winner
Five decades after enchanting some 50 million visitors, Montreal’s Île Saint-Hélène is again a wonderland, with whimsical landscape and building architecture, urban design, branding, signage and furniture grounded in a contemporary design language inspired by the century’s most successful World’s Fair (EXPO 67).
Able to host 65,000 spectators in its natural amphitheatre, the four-season public experiential space is defined by grand and human-scaled gestures that evoke EXPO’s geometry and materials as well as the island’s original verdant character. Unique paving patterns, designed planted areas, and signature furniture and lighting reinterpret the distinctive look of EXPO’s geometrical shapes.
Versatile benches humanize the scale of the vast site by creating sub-spaces, their spaceframe-inspired perforations echoed in the grand belvedere’s railings and elsewhere. The seats’ pleasing wooden textures and comfortable surfaces welcome visitors to rest areas of contrasting ambiances and scales. Benches punctuate the custom, crowd-resistant planters, whose vegetation provides welcome shade.
Signature lighting enhances the ambience of various spaces and pieces. It gently embellishes the furniture, stages the works of art and activates performance spaces.
Lemay’s playful urban furniture complements and highlights a new ambiance of wonder underpinned by strategic and integrated design.
Collaboration
Landscape Architecture : Lemay
Manufacturer - Distributor : Équiparc
