This project was designed through a collaboration between Lemay, Angela Silver, and AtkinsRéalis. ______________ The winning entry in an international, anonymous transdisciplinary design competition, Montreal’s Place des Montréalaises is an evocative public space that will honor 21 women who have shaped the city. Located over a sunken expressway that has long separated Old Montreal from its downtown counterpart, the project heals a wound in the cityscape with its inclined plane that reconnects the two. This grand gesture is a response to monumental surroundings: the historic Champ-de-Mars, the soaring new university hospital (CHUM), the majestic city hall and courthouse buildings, and Lemay’s award-winning Place Vauquelin, among many others. This suspended architectural piece becomes a floating flowery meadow, with integrated stairs inscribed with the women’s names: an inviting and evocative space. It merges two radically different urban topographies, framing a series of thresholds of varying scales. The design introduces three symbolic architectural components: THE FOREST is an entranceway, a place to rest and reflect. It evokes the Quebec landscape with trees native to Montreal’s beloved Mount Royal