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Stairs

Entryway
entire volume of its perimeter envelope
high enough to create a 360-degree
band of windows at eye-level. In doing with an integrated multimedia banner falling mounds, allowing for multiple
so, the interior and rolling landscape for indoor projections. Layers like viewpoints along the building’s outer
that encircles the building become these present an elegant solution for the envelope of cut-outs and projections with
interconnected, only separated by a wall concealment of mechanical services, a metallic skin that shines and fades as ice
of glass that merges being seen with allowing for a better appreciation of the does.
seeing. sleek minimalism found throughout the Locals and visitors from abroad have
"By focusing on absolute transparency, environment. already begun to connect skates to the
we have decompartmentalised the space to An expression of Lemay’s commitment ice of this achievement in architecture
open it up to the community, connecting to northern design, the Centre de Glaces and design, fit for the blades of Canada's
skaters to the outside world," said Eric promotes wellness and embraces Canada’s Olympians. Meanwhile, onlookers can
Pelletier, architect, senior partner and nordicity by enticing movement, no watch from either the luminous hall or
design principal at Lemay. matter the time of year, through the a lofty mezzanine seat a few metres away
This visual democratisation of the inclusion of two running tracks. One from the ice, projecting them into the
Centre de Glaces’ activities is maintained follows the periphery of the ice indoors heart of the action at major speed skating
through the elevation of its seating by and is complemented by a second that competitions, hockey tournaments, and
placing them on a higher mezzanine encircles the complex with rising and other events. dw

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