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multiple users and offering distinctive
experiences: these are the challenges in
the coming years to make Sainte-Hélène
and Notre-Dame islands a park that is
bigger than nature itself.”

Projects and major development
initiatives
The plan, which extends over ten
years, is an investment for the Montréal
community, and it will result in being able
to offer the population a top-notch public
park and infrastructures with concerted
building and development initiatives,
positioning Montréal as one of the
greenest cities in the world. In carrying
out the developmental proposals of the
Management plan the Parc enlisted the
services of the NIPPAYSAGE and Réal
individual and collective experiences forefront, we are hoping that, over the Paul Architectes team to shape this vision
offered in conjunction with nature, next decade, Parc Jean-Drapeau becomes of the future. Interest in the development
landscapes, history, culture, and sports, one of the parks which is emblematic project is centred around respect for
but also because of its environmental of Montréal and one of the most widely heritage, responding to constraints, needs,
commitment, as a laboratory for best known contemporary parks in Canada,’’ and current issues, and the creativity
practices in sustainable development. said Société du Parc Jean-Drapeau of proposals based on the best modern
“Sparked by an undeniable desire to director-general Isabelle Bonneau. practices in landscape architecture. The
put sociability, citizenship, democracy, “Innovating to stand out, conducting an result is a park that is more accessible,
durability, ecology, and culture in the organizational transition, listening to inclusive, diversified, green, and public.

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