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PATIOS &
OUTDOOR
LIVING

Lightemotion

Illuminates

Viger Square

Montreal, Canada

igh temotion, a global lighting design
consultancy creating pathways
Lto enhanced human experiences,
proudly presents its enlightenment of
Square Viger, a neglected public space
bridging Montreal’s contemporary
downtown core with the preserved
history of Old Montreal. Forming part of
an eight-year contemporary overhaul to
restore the space as a green and accessible
public square, the project anchors around
the preservation of an existing historic
monument, and the revival of pergolas
originally designed by Quebec artist Heeding the call the task at hand, the project’s landscape
Charles Daudelin. In addition to restoring elements of architect, NIPPAYSAGE, brought
“In the 1950s and 60s, Square Viger Square Viger’s past, the project envisioned Lightemotion in from the very beginning
was an iconic space in the style of a the infusion of fresh new life to carry the to bring it all to life.
New York City park,” explains François public space beyond the present and into In the shadow of a recently built
Roupinian, President and Design the future. On a macro level, that vision hospital complex, Lightemotion wanted
Director of Lightemotion. “But then a unfolded through the addition of abundant to approach the project from an angle
highway through the downtown core was perennial plants able to withstand the 180-degrees removed from what a
constructed underneath it, and it was challenging elements of Montreal’s four traditional park experience calls for.
restored in more of a Brutalist style in the seasons, as well as through the addition of In assessing the contents of the newly-
1970s.” more than 50 new trees. In approaching designed Square, the firm devised a

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