This new Montreal venue will be a retro-future dream, crafted entirely from old metro cars
A first look at the food and culture hub, courtesy of 360-degree renderings. 👀
Rendering of Pavilion MR-63, a Montreal food and cultural centre set to open in 2025.
The team behind Montreal's MR-63 Pavilion — a food and culture venue made of old metro cars that's set to open in 2025 — has released new renderings, giving us a better sense of what the space will look like once it's complete.
Spearheaded by two Montreal brothers, the $28.8 million project aims to create a hub of local art, design and gastronomy — all contained within eight converted metro cars, which will in turn be encased inside a glass building.
Picture a café, bar, restaurants, a green roof terrasse, a 300-seat digital performance hall, exhibition spaces, seasonal programming and more, right in the heart of Griffintown. Construction has already begun on the site at Place William Dow, a square between rue Peel and rue Ottawa.
While there were already a couple of basic renderings available, the latest imagery, unveiled Tuesday, provides a more detailed and more realistic view of the planned design. A video by Ivy Studio Inc. even offers the chance to immerse yourself in a 360-degree experience of MR-63.
You can watch the full video on the MR-63 website.
If you're into retro-futurism, you'll likely be thrilled with the aesthetic, which fuses vintage with hyper-modern (for anyone watching Amazon Prime's Fallout, you could also call it "vault-chic"). The MR-63 metro cars used for the project were themselves built in in the 1960s, and the renderings convey a vision of the future someone in the '60s might have dreamed up.
"Imagine strolling through an architecturally audacious building, navigating between the iconic MR-63 metro cars to discover the culinary, artistic and design wonders that Montreal has to offer," reads the MR-63 blog post. "Boldness and innovation, interwoven with history, creativity and enchanting flavours... all 100% local."
MR-63 also announced Tuesday that it will be hosting an experiential preview on August 22.
The soirée, which organizers are calling "Matériel ROULANT," is described as an "immersive, retro-futuristic evening dedicated to the three major themes you now know so well: art, design and gastronomy."
More details to come.
