Patrimony and Architecture
Public art
Half open-air museum, half-garden, this compelling urban space is a reflection on landscape, city identity and urban fabric.
Address
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Garden
1920 Baile Street
Montréal, QC
H3H 2S6
Montréal, QC
H3H 2S6
Guy-Concordia
Downtown
The CCA Garden combines sculpture and public space, lying at the edge of an escarpment facing the CCA main building from the south side of René-Lévesque Boulevard. The site was granted to the CCA by the City of Montréal in 1986. Designed by Montréal artist-architect, Melvin Charney, as part of the Québec government’s competition program for the integration of art and architecture, the garden is laid out as a series of narrative episodes–Orchard, Meadow, Arcade, Esplanade, Belvedere, and Allegorical Columns—that collectively reference the history of the city and the architecture that inhabits it.
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