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Transport tussle: Transport Centre for the Montreal Transit Society by Lemay Associés.

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Railway stations, bus depots and airport hangers are clover for admirers of supersheds! The need for massive spans bring the need for close collaboration, even harmonic relations, between architect and structural engineer. The transport shed can also lead to some pretty good architecture. Who, that has visited it, can forget Stockwell bus depot in London? When it was constructed in1952 it was the largest single-span concrete structure ever built! Its cathedral-like proportions and elegance astounds today.

So this transport centre in Montreal designed by Lemay Associés for the Montreal Transit Society is part of a noble tradition and must answer some particularly demanding questions. It has been designed to house 300 vehicles and is colossal in scale but it also sets different design priorities to earlier transport sheds.

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