PINK BALLS
Montréal (Québec), Canada
Montréal (Québec), Canada
PINK BALLS
Montréal (Québec), Canada
| Project |
Client Société de développement commercial - SDC du Village |
Year 2011/2012 |
Status Constructed |
| What better than 170,000 pink balls suspended high in the air to enliven Montreal’s Sainte-Catherine Street East as it transforms for the summer into a pedestrian mall? The plastic balls, in three different sizes and five subtle shades of pink, are strung together with bracing wire, crisscrossing the street and stretching through tree branches at varying heights. Not only is the visual impact delightful, but the artificial pink foliage modulates and plays with the light as pedestrians amble the length of the installation, which extends a full 1 kilometres between St-Hubert and Papineau Streets. Pink balls, designed as part of Aires Libres, is sure to keep all who stroll through the Village this summer…in the pink! |
Partnership Surface Prizes Facteur D - Landscape Architecture Award – Pink Balls, Montreal Phénicia – Gay Chamber of commerce of Québec - International influence award– Pink Balls, Montréal |
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Credits
Row 1 / Aerial view, CC+A
Row 2 @ 5 / Photos, Marc Cramer
Row 6 @ 7 / Photo, CC+A
Row 8 @ 11 / Photos, Marc Cramer
Row 12 / Aerial view 1, localisation, CC+A
Row 13 / Conceptual scheme, CC+A
Row 14 / Aerial view 2, localisation, CC+A
Row 15 / Photos, Memorama by Daily tous les jours
Row 16 / Les Boules Roses by UbiqueMedia
Row 17 / Video stills from Les Boules Roses by UbiqueMedia
Row 18 @ 20 / Photos, under construction, CC+A