Etiket: architecture
Excellence in Architecture Award 2024 | The Order of Architects of Quebec reveals its winners
Eleven projects stood out at the last Awards of Excellence in Architecture gala. One of them, the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain-phase 3 (Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker), emerged as the big winner.…
Casablanca, concentrated in “avant-garde” architecture | The Press
(Casablanca) The frantic pace of Casablanca leaves “no time to really appreciate” the city, realizes Mehdi Ksikes, tourist for a day, as he rediscovers the center of the Moroccan economic…
Americans are “thinking about a more global architecture,” explains political scientist Jean-Paul Chagnollaud
Published on 03/21/2024 11:45 p.m. Video length: 3 min Call for a ceasefire in Gaza: the Americans are “thinking about a more global architecture”, explains political scientist Jean-Paul Chagnollaud Call…
Pritzker Prize winner | Architecture should “bring joy to people,” says Riken Yamamoto
(Tokyo) Buildings should make people happy, Japanese Riken Yamamoto said on Thursday, two days after winning the Pritzker Prize, the world’s highest honor for architecture. Posted at 7:17 a.m. “My…
The Pritzker Prize for Architecture awarded to Japanese Riken Yamamoto
(New York) The Pritzker Prize, the world’s highest honor in architecture, was awarded Tuesday to Japanese Riken Yamamoto, renowned for his work combining architecture and social concerns, according to the…
Boomtown style architecture in Beauce, a built heritage in motion
Every Tuesday, The duty offers a space to the creators of a periodical. This week, we offer you a text published in the history review Cap-aux-Diamantsissue 156 (winter 2024). In…
Architecture at the service of students | At school and at home
In 2020, a consortium made up of two young architecture firms, Agence Spatiale and Apparatus Architecture, won the competition organized by the Lab-École for the construction of l’Étincelle, in Saguenay.…
Architecture at the service of students | Collège Sainte-Anne: from ideation to realization
For seven years, Sainte-Anne College looked at ways to redefine its teaching methods in order to make its five establishments cutting-edge places of learning. The new pavilion of its secondary…
Looking to 2023 | Of architecture and men
Majestic, iconic, astonishing, charming, inspiring… Houses are a true passion, and we present to you those that left their mark on us this year! Updated Dec 31 2023 PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN…
The great beauty of architecture
Filmmakers like architects take a unique look at their environment. Do those who have the task of drawing up the plans of our houses or our gathering places allow themselves…
Too much architecture, not enough stadium
No, no one is seriously thinking about demolishing the Montreal Olympic Stadium. Yes, it is an architectural monument and it has become a signature of Montreal. Whatever anyone says, it…
The musical offering from the historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd lands at the Canadian Center for Architecture
It is at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) that the musical offerings of the historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd will be redeployed after the fire which seriously damaged…
Claude Cormier, a “visionary” of landscape architecture, is no longer
Quebec landscape architect Claude Cormier died Friday, at the age of 63. It has notably marked the city of Montreal with its installations such as the 30-meter diameter steel ring…
with the architecture of the country, “the chances of finding survivors are reduced”, laments the president of the NGO Secouristes sans frontières
“We are humanitarians, we are here to save lives. We regret that decisions are not taken more quickly”, explains Arnaud Fraisse, the president of Secouristes sans frontières. “If we don’t…
Quality architecture, a collective project
As Robert Dutrisac puts it so well in his June 29 editorial, the implementation plan that the government has just tabled for its National Policy on Architecture and Land Use…
Two exhibitions to see this summer at the Canadian Center for Architecture
This text is part of the special booklet The summer of museums This summer, the CCA is interested in the Argentinian architect Amancio williams and dissects the concept of photography…
Resilient architecture | A climate-proof house
The ice storm drove thousands of Quebecers from their homes for a few days this spring. This new episode of violent weather should encourage us to build houses with a…
Award of Excellence in Architecture | A new formula where ingenious projects shine
The Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) unveiled the winning projects for its Awards of Excellence in Architecture on April 21. Eleven projects were rewarded in a new formula that…
architecture schools in distress all over France
Posted on 07/04/2023 23:06 Update on 07/04/2023 23:35 Video length: 2 min. France 3 Article written by T. Petit, A. Tribouart, B. de Saint-Jore – France 3 France Televisions Architecture…
Architecture and land use planning | Now is not the time to lower the bar
Will the spring of 2023 be that of a shift in land use planning? If there are dozens of us today, from all areas of expertise and from civil society,…