Ville de Montréal launches nationwide ideas competition for the redesigning
of the area around Champ-de-Mars metro station
Nov 04, 2009, 08:35 ET
Champ-de-Mars station, with its magnificent glassworks by renowned artist
Reflecting on the quality of public spaces in Montréal
The competition invites entrants to submit development proposals that integrate smoothly with the existing public spaces and take into account the current and future built environment, including the impending Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal. Proposals must promote citizen appropriation of the urban environment and provide a development framework that facilitates movement through the city.
"Montréal has the potential, the talent and the resources to take its place as a true flagship city, where designers play a pre-eminent role in all urban renewal projects,"
This design competition is the third to be implemented in the wake of the commitments announced by the Mayor of Montréal at the Pecha Kucha Night for Elected Officials on
About the competition
The concept competition is being held on an anonymous-entry basis and is open to all design professionals, students or consortiums whose main place of business is located in
Proposals received will be studied and evaluated by a jury on the basis of the following criteria: enhancement of the architecture and glassworks of Champ-de-Mars metro station; reinforcement of the pedestrian links and access routes leading from the station to all of the surrounding areas; and the innovative and esthetic qualities of the project as well as the atmosphere created by the planned action.
The jury members are:
- Melvin Charney, architect; - Odile Decq, architect and Director of the École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris; - Jacques Des Rochers, Curator of Canadian Art, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts; - Michel Dionne, architect, Cooper, Robertson & Partners, New York; - Raphaël Fischler, urban planner and professor at the School of Urban Planning, McGill University; - Mario Masson, landscape architect and Division Manager, Service du développement culturel, de la qualité du milieu de vie et de la diversité ethnoculturelle, Ville de Montréal; - Alessandra Ponte, associate professor, School of Architecture, Université de Montréal; - Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, landscape architect and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at Université de Montréal.
Instructions for prospective entrants
Registration is free and mandatory. Each entrant must complete the form available on the realisonsmontreal.com website, by
Ideas Competition Redesigning of the area around Champ-de-Mars metro station A/S bureau Design Montréal 303, rue Notre-Dame Est, 6e étage Montréal (Québec) H2Y 3Y8
Entrants who have questions about the competition must submit them by e-mail to the Design Montréal office at [email protected], no later than
About Design Montréal
The Design Montréal office was created in
For further information: Stéphanie Jecrois, Design Montréal, (514) 872-5388; Source: Martin Tremblay, Office of the Mayor and the Executive Committee, (514) 872-0274
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