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COMMERCIAL
INTERIOR

Centre de Glaces

Speed Inspires Rink

Lemay's Design
of the Largest

Indoor Ice Ring in
North America

Québec, Canada

nspired by the Olympic speed skating
champions Québec has fostered
Ilike Gaétan Boucher and Robert
Dubreuil, the new Centre de Glaces is
primed to inspire Canadians, aspiring
and established athletes alike. With a
400-metre oval speed skating track and
two Olympic-sized ice rinks, one for
short-track speed skating and the other
for ice sports like figure skating and
hockey, this bold ice sports complex of
elegant and restrained design from Lemay
is the largest of its kind in North America,
and the first on the eastern seaboard.
The oval structure is composed of fluid
and continuous forms that reflect the
speed, dynamism, balance, and skill of a
skater gliding on the centre's 13,500 m2
of ice. As a complement to a well-loved
outdoor community skating rink, the
Centre de Glaces features the adaptive
gesture of a floating ring which lifts the

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