Promenade Smith, Montreal, Qc. Canada

DESCRIPTION

Winner of the design competition organised by Ville de Montréal (2011). Running along Lachine Canal, Smith Street is transformed into a reinvigorated collective public space. Inspired by the raw, robust, and informal character of this railroad-generated landscape, the project seeks to seize and amplify the qualities of this landscape in order to reclaim and regenerate the panoply of disjointed residual spaces into a structured place, synthesising the identities of old and new Griffintown. As a hybrid between a garden, a street, a park, and a public space, Promenade Smith reinvents urban archetypes and proposes a new synergy between public space and urban ecology.