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In addition to the visual marquees of the neighbourhoods, a proposal for a range of street furniture that accommodates street performers included sound marquees, discrete amplifying walls, and small acoustic shell installations for pocket parks and vacant lots.
Le spectacle est le capital á un tel degré d'accumulation qu'il devient image.
Guy Debord, La Société du spectacle, 1967 Chapitre 1, 34
Urbanism versus Branding
for Montréal’s Quartier des Spectacles
left: Amplifying Wall for street performers by Tony Round.
right: Experimental Polymer Refuge Dome prototype scale model, Marie-Paule Macdonald.
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