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Montréal-based design outfit <a href="http://atomic3.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Atomic3</a> has shared with us their light installation, "Éclats de Verre" for Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles on Emilie-Gamelin square.</p>
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<strong>Éclats de verre<br>
Place Émilie-Gamelin / Montreal / Canada<br>
December 15th, 2011 - February 26, 2012</strong></p>
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Montreal has long been known as the ”city of a hundred steeples”. Through the heart of this northern metropolis, ATOMIC3 has scattered Éclats de verre: a giant shattered stained-glass window reorganised into a playful maze that offers a unique immersive experience to its visitors, and a colourful panorama to passersby.</p>
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Winner of the Créer l’hiver competition, Éclats de verre is one of three works that make up Luminothérapie 2012. The goal of this event produced by the Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal is to beat the winter blues, using interactive light-based installations.</p>
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Éclats de verre transforms Place Émilie-Gamelin, located in the Latin Quarter, into a field of vibrant hues. Passersby ...</p>