The Globe and Mail

The comeback of any significant architect in this country or elsewhere is always welcome news. For Saucier + Perrotte Architectes of Montreal, the comeback follows an eerie quiet from prospective clients in their hometown after representing Canada at the 2004 Venice Biennale in Architecture. Despite being among Canada's most inspired designers, the firm lost the competition to design the planned Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg and, though Saucier + Perrotte had won the prestigious Senate building competition in Ottawa in 2005, the federal government then abruptly cancelled the project on the western edge of Parliament Hill. But the distress felt then by Gilles Saucier, an architect who lives and breathes architecture, has been replaced by ecstasy at the chance to design more transporting work. Saucier +Perrotte is now designing two major projects for the University of Calgary. And with the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) building at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, recently celebrated with a public lecture by the architect, Saucier + Perrotte carries us to a place we rarely travel where architecture makes us feel emotion.