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Cirque Turcot Wheatpaste
The 43-year-old Turcot Interchange, the largest highway interchange in Quebec, was opened in time for Expo '67 where it was hailed as a masterpiece of industrial efficiency and Modernist mega-construction.
Now it crumbles. Chunks of concrete periodically fall from the structure, which is encased in layers of heavy wire mesh. Planners debate what should be done with it. The Quebec Transport Authority has produced a plan that would lower the expressway to ground level and widen its automobile carrying capacity. The City of Montreal has responded with a counter-plan, and a coalition of environmental organizations, community groups and urban planners has put forth a third plan.
I am a street artist and urban planning student, and so figured why not start a series of alternate Turcot proposals? This is the first in the series- Cirque Turcot.
Cirque Turcot Wheatpaste
The 43-year-old Turcot Interchange, the largest highway interchange in Quebec, was opened in time for Expo '67 where it was hailed as a masterpiece of industrial efficiency and Modernist mega-construction.
Now it crumbles. Chunks of concrete periodically fall from the structure, which is encased in layers of heavy wire mesh. Planners debate what should be done with it. The Quebec Transport Authority has produced a plan that would lower the expressway to ground level and widen its automobile carrying capacity. The City of Montreal has responded with a counter-plan, and a coalition of environmental organizations, community groups and urban planners has put forth a third plan.
I am a street artist and urban planning student, and so figured why not start a series of alternate Turcot proposals? This is the first in the series- Cirque Turcot.