Côte-Vertu Semicircular forms that speed traffic flow dominate. The brick-clad space includes yellow accents and two large stainless-steel murals. Matt's Rating:

Du Collège The theme is classical elegance, reflecting the educational institutions it serves; an Ionic column has pride of place, with a profusion of stained glass windows decorating the kiosks. Matt's Rating:

De la Savane Fascinating all-concrete architecture with lots of jagged angles and scattered, semispherical light fixtures. A light-shaft and fixtures cast multicolored light on a spiky sculpture of a calcite crystal. Matt's Rating:

Namur The station's decoration is quite plain, except for the astonishing, enormous illuminated molecular structure suspended in mid-air and spreading all through the great volume of the mezzanine. Matt's Rating:

Plamondon The polarized colour scheme - the north blue, the south red - plays on the entrances situated at either end of the station. The rest of the decoration makes good use of steel and backlit glass bricks. Matt's Rating:

Côte-Sainte-Catherine A sloping central volume that permits an overview of the whole station is brightened with bright yellow panels and abundant lighting. Matt's Rating:

Snowdon — click here to read architectural overview.

Villa-Maria Another station with a deep, tall volume in the access area. Circular murals and seating units in autumn colours. Matt's Rating:

Vendôme A sleek modern interior and curved metal exterior both reproduce the commuter trains it also serves. A sculpture and stained-glass window by Marcelle Ferron. Matt's Rating:

Place-Saint-Henri A beautiful modernist station. The deep internal volume, separated by dramatic curtain walls, is a succession of stacking vaults, with a mobile sculpture suspended in midair. Gradients of colour from either the ends to the escalator shaft meet in high triangular light shafts. Several artworks in the hexagon-themed mezzanine and kiosks. Matt's Rating:

Lionel-Groulx — click here to read architectural overview.

Georges-Vanier A terribly smart dark grey and blue colour scheme in precise forms, and angular lines in the central volume and bridge surrounding a tall tree-shaped sculpture. A stylish post-modern achievement. Matt's Rating:

Lucien-L'Allier An immense, unadorned volume brings the height of one of the deepest stations in the network to bear with full force on the traveller. Matt's Rating:

Bonaventure One of the most elegant stations of the first network, with warm brown brick cladding, striking pyramidal light fixtures, and bridges spanning the cut-and-cover volume below the mezzanine. Matt's Rating:

Square-Victoria A variety of different cladding patterns combine in the purest example of the International style in the network, crowned by the Hector Guimard art nouveau Parisian metro entrance on the Saint-Antoine exit, the only authentic one in use outside Paris. Matt's Rating:

Place-d'Armes There is little of interest in this station slung under the Palais des Congrès. Stainless steel cladding and displays from the Pointe-à-Callière Museum. Matt's Rating:

Champ-de-Mars The simple interior design is backdrop for Marcelle Ferron's stunning stained-glass window. This glorious work lets brilliantly coloured light splash into the mezzanine and platforms from three sides of the kiosk. One of the most beautiful works of art in the metro. Matt's Rating:

Berri-UQAM — click here to read architectural overview.

Sherbrooke An unornamented but attractive use of colours (beige, violet, and red-orange) in this station. Two unobstrusive works of art, plus a large colourful mosaic at platform level commemorating the achievements of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. Matt's Rating:

Mont-Royal This station has a sober, clean, brooding, and contemporary feeling, but a redesign introduced certain rather severe practical problems. Matt's Rating:

Laurier The decoration of this tunnel-built station and of its rounded accessways and angular kiosks is unremarkable. Matt's Rating:

Rosemont The station is a bright, cheerful space with obliquely angled walls and pillars to distinguish it, and is a good representative of the architecture styles of the era of its construction. The dark, handsome kiosk is in a completely different style. Matt's Rating:

Beaubien This station's unusual rounded forms - the cross-section of its platforms, the accesses, and the kiosk - today appear amusingly retro. Matt's Rating:

Jean-Talon An unspectacular but reasonable Sixties single-line station was adapted in the 1980s to create a transfer station with the blue line, with a huge and rather confusing set of galleries featuring striking overlooks and a huge, multistory mural. Matt's Rating:

Jarry This plain station is mainly known for its vault of lozenge-shaped caissons over the connecting bridge. Matt's Rating:

Crémazie The attractive Sixties architecture includes a pair of split pillars joined by geometric shapes, as well as a huge circular mural commemorating three important Québécois poets. Matt's Rating:

Sauvé Ill thought out architecture (extremely narrow corridors) is worsened by bad decoration. Matt's Rating:

Henri-Bourassa The overall design of this sprawling station is nothing special, but it contains several beautiful and impressive sculptural murals. Note the new platform added for the Laval extension. Matt's Rating:

Cartier Simplicity and wide spaces at platform level unite with intriguing shapes and skillful landscaping at the upper level. Materials are left to their natural colours. Matt's Rating:

De la Concorde Based around three simple geometrical volumes, this beautiful, ultramodern building is both soothing and exciting. Bare concrete is used to full effect in the main volume, while the platforms are attractively decorated, and the design of the entrance building is highly innovative. Matt's Rating:

Montmorency The great depth of the main volume is emphasized with exposed arches and beams. The platform decoration recalls artistic trends of the 60s and 70s, while the effect of the station's huge size is softened by playful suspended sculptures. Matt's Rating: