Quebec architects soar with modest, civic designs

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / May 2

Quebec architects have been showered with the riches of the Governor-General's Medals in Architecture, scoring an unprecedented eight of 12 awards given out in the country's most prestigious design competition. The winners were announced yesterday by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts. Though Quebec has not experienced the building booms of Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, modest, civic projects located throughout the province -- a library, a tourism centre, a park's welcoming pavilion, two theatres and one condominium -- caught the attention of the Governor-General's jury. The Montreal studios of Cirque du Soleil, the province's beloved entertainment troupe, have also been awarded. And the distinguished, Montreal-based firm of Saucier + Perrotte architectes has been honoured for its design of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont.

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