Make all The Lord of the Rings jokes you want, but Montreal’s ring installation is coming full circle.
Giant full circle.
The highly-criticized art piece is a 90-foot-high, 50,000-pound stainless steel arched ring.
Aptly named “The Ring,” the massive structure will reportedly cost $5 million and is set to be unveiled at the main entrance to Esplanade PVM at Place Ville Marie on June 16.
The installation is intended to serve as a gateway to the city centre, says Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. (and maybe even another dimension?), and it was designed by Claude Cormier + Associés, a landscape architecture firm whose projects have “helped redefine the city’s urban spaces,” says the press release. “The imposing structure will beautify the face of Montreal while giving new vibrancy, vitality, and appeal to the heart of the city.”
While speaking with Daily Hive, Éric Senécal, the Public Affairs Advisor for Ivanhoé Cambridge says the art piece presents a two-year-long collaboration between the City of Montreal and local multidisciplinary teams.
Senécal says “The Ring” was manufactured by a Trois-Rivières-based firm, using “international expertise in high-precision machining, manufacturing, and mechanical assembly.”
Perhaps Frodo Baggins said it best in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
Pictures of the ongoing construction of PVM’s new artsy entrance can be found below. The first of which is from design firm Claude Cormier + Associés, who shared images of the ring “from shop to site.”
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