The Architect · Hélène · Montréal
Avenue McGill College Axis
This is the one deliberate grand axis in downtown Montreal, and most people don't register it. Stand on the widened Avenue McGill College and the view runs straight from Place Ville Marie's plaza up the boulevard to the McGill campus and the green mountain crowned by its cross. It's a textbook planned sightline — structure, axis, and landscape in one frame.
The broad downtown boulevard framing a clean axial view from Place Ville Marie straight up to Mount Royal and the cross — the city's best planned sightline.
— Hélène, The Architect
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