The team at ADHOC explains how this project enabled people to gather in downtown Montréal while complying with the physical distancing rules implemented during the pandemic.

Architect and professor Alice Covatta explores international case studies and identifies best practices applicable to Montréal.

A discussion focusing on the importance of Montréal’s industrial heritage and how it should be preserved by highlighting the original character of buildings.

Atelier 21 and Lemay explain how this project ensured the safeguarding of two instances of iconic modern heritage: Victor Prus’s architecture and Jordi Bonet’s sculpture.

A discussion of the issues around repurposing historic buildings, including religious buildings, where quality is examined from the perspective of the slightest interventions on the original building.

The result of an architecture competition, the Du Boisé Library is a landmark public building in Saint‐Laurent borough, which has a 60% immigrant population.

Softwalks is an initiative to enliven unesthetic “sidewalk sheds” in New York City by converting them into a useful, pleasant form of public space.

Discussion on methods for mobilizing and engaging a team for a large-scale project.

Finalists in the architecture competition presented their concepts to the jury at gathering that was open to the public, as a means of informing Montrealers about the decision-making process involved in a project and including them in it.

This urban design workshop aimed at commissioning a range of ideas for the renewal of one of Old Montréal’s most emblematic public spaces, Place d’Armes.

Discussion of how a project competition can enable selection of the concept that best responds to a given program, budget or timeline.

Florent Chiappero outlines new ways of thinking about and designing cities as more open and inclusive entities. The objective was to occupy an abandoned space during downtime on an urban project to consider it from a new perspective that reflected ongoing changes in the neighbourhood.