Article source: Cardin Ramirez Julien + AEdifica
XYZ Technologie Culturelle, in collaboration with the American firm Sky-Skan, which specializes in designing planetarium shows, has created the two immersive domes in the new Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, which opened on April 6 of this year. Forty-six years after the advent of the first planetarium in Montreal, this new facility provides the city with exclusive, unprecedented technology. “The combination of traditional optical technology for projection of a starry sky and video offers viewers the only immersive experience of its kind in Quebec,” confirms Jacques Larue, partner at XYZ.
Image Courtesy © Ulysse Lemerisse
- Architects: Cardin Ramirez Julien + AEdifica
- Project: XYZ: Partner in the cosmic voyages at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium!
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Photography: Ulysse Lemerisse
- Client: City of Montreal
- Project manager: Pierre Lacombe
- Design team: Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon
- Engineers: SNC Lavalin, Dupras Ledoux ingénieurs
- Landscape architects: Fauteux et Associés Architectes Paysagistes
- Contractors: Groupe Décarel inc
- Installation and supply of specialized equipment for the permanent exhibition: Sky-Skan/XYZ Cultural Technology
- Artists: Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon
- Area of project: 10 638 m2
- Budget: 48 millions
- Project end date: April 6, 2013
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