Manon Asselin wins Prix du Québec
Manon Asselin (B.Arch. 1992, M.Arch. 2001) has won a Prix du Québec (Cultural category), the Prix Ernest Cormier 2018.
[From the Prix du Québec website:]
KANVA and NEUF architect(e)s win three CISC awards
The architectural firm KANVA (principals Rami Bebawi and Tudor Radulescu, both M.Arch.
Michael Fohring wins The One Club for Creativity Young Guns 16 award
[from The One Club for Creativity website:]
Minimum Cost Housing / Hackathon Group wins 2018 National Urban Design Award
Bringing together an interdisciplinary design team from southern Quebec with more than 60 residents, the Kuujjuaq Hackathon, a five-day event in September 2017, capitalized on local building expertise and leadership to reimagine key public spaces. The unique initiative won in the Small and Medium Scale Urban Fragments category.
Atelier Big City, Cimaise win competition for children’s theatre in Sherbrooke
[from Canadian Architect, 15 October 2018:]
Bloomberg by Foster + Partners wins the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize
Bloomberg’s new European headquarters in London has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize.
Andrew King and Angela Silver lead winning entry for Place de Montrealaises International Design Competition
[from the Lemay press release of 6 September 2018]
McGill-Concordia collaboration wins big in solar-powered house competition
[from the McGill Reporter, 24 August 2018, by Junji Nishihata]
Prof. Kiel Moe joins faculty of School
Prof. Kiel Moe joins the School as the inaugural Gerald Sheff Chair in Architecture as of September 1, 2018.
Order of Canada appointments: Julia Gersovitz and Ron Williams
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, has announced 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada. The new member list includes 3 Companions (C.C.), 20 Officers (O.C.) and 82 Members (C.M.). Julia Gersovitz (B.Arch. 1975) has been appointed an Officer and Ronald Franklin Williams (B.Arch.
Louise Pelletier named director of Centre de design at UQAM
[from the UQAM website:]
Luciana Adoyo wins Award for Excellence in Service to GPS
PhD administrator Luciana Adoyo has won the Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for 2018. The award was presented at the annual GPC workshop on June 13, 2018, by Josephine Nalbantoglu, Dean of GPS. In the citation for the award, Dean Nalbantoglu remarked that the selection committee was impressed with Adoyo’s dedication to the graduate students in her unit, the efficiency she has brought to the daily operations within her departmen
Undergraduate team wins second prize at Tongji construction festival
A team of undergraduate students under the supervision of Prof. David Covo has won second prize at the 2018 Tongji International Construction Festival and Fengyuzhu Plastic Polypropylene Sheet Design and Construction Competition on June 10, 2018, in Shanghai. The six winning U1 students are Shengkun (Tommy) Yang, Adam Joseph Ghadi-Delgado, Olivia Naomi Ahmadi, Hongming (Bruce) Liang, Diana Nigmatullina, and Nour Achrafie.
Atelier Big City and Groupe EGP win competition for addition to art centre in Sherbrooke
A consortium of firms has won the competition for an addition to the Centre des arts de la scène Jean-Besré (CASJB) in Sherbrooke: CIMAISE, Atelier Big City (principals Clifford C.F. Wong Professor of Practice Howard Davies, Randy Cohen, and Anne Cormier [all B.Arch.
Atelier TAG and Architecture49 win Saint Joseph’s Oratory competition
At a press conference on June 5, 2018, at the Oratory Basilica, Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal revealed the winner of the multidisciplinary architectural competition launched last December. The jury followed a rigorous process to evaluate the offers from the four finalists according to well-defined selection criteria.