Calls

Bus shelters

Industrial Design Competition

Source:

Tatjana Leblanc

General information

Status: Inaugurated
Deployment: Ville de Montréal
Type of project: Prototype
Program: This competition is one of the five “shukôs,” or creative challenges, issued during the Pecha Kucha Night for Elected Officials by the Mayor of Montréal as part of the commitments made by the Ville de Montréal and its partners in the Action Plan 2007–2017 – Montréal, Cultural Métropolis. One of the goals of this plan is to promote excellence in design and architecture by widening the use of competitions.
Principal contractors:

Société de transport de Montréal (STM)
Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal

Winners: Leblanc + Turcotte + Spooner

Competition format

First selection: Candidate submission
Second selection: Paid presentation

Number of competitors: 35
Number of finalists: 5

Scope: Provincial (Québec)
Targeted professionals: Professionals in the field of design or a related field, particularly in industrial design, architecture and landscape architecture.

Type of presentation: Before a jury
Public presentation: None

Professional advisor: André Desrosiers
Steering committee: Yes
Technical committee: Yes

Competition documents:

The program was prepared by the Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal in collaboration with the STM.
The professional advisor prepared the competition rules.

Timetable

Competition duration: 3 months
Launch of call for candidates: September 15, 2009
End of stage 1 (selection of finalists): September 30, 2009
End of stage 2 (selection of winner): December 8, 2009
Jury deliberations: December 15, 2009

Subsequent stages:
Inauguration of the first bus shelter: November 14, 2011
Deployment of the new bus shelters: 2013

Financial information

Funding source(s):

Building Montréal UNESCO City of Design project*
Société de transport de Montréal (STM)

*An initiative of the Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal and the UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environment at the Université de Montréal funded equally by the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine, the Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du territoire, the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal and the Ville de Montréal.

Competition budget: $98,000
Fees paid to the finalists (amount subtracted from contract awarded to winner): $15,000
Other fees (e.g.: professional advisor, jury, technical experts, etc.): $23,000
Production budget: $8,800,000

Professional fees of the winner represent 1.14% of the project’s production budget.
Competition costs represent 1.11% of the project’s production budget.

Communication activities and tools

Video (in French):