Videos

The webinar aims to present the guide and the web plateform named Construction circulaire, created by CERIEC to communication the results of the Lab construction.

The webinar aims to present the Handbook of Best Practices for Quality of Temporary Street Design Projects in Montréal. How can it be useful to you and how to use it effectively?

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.

The winning concept developed by the Affleck de la Riva / Coarchitecture team emphasizes a people-centred and environmentally responsible approach.

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

A discussion on integration of new buildings in eclectic urban contexts, where the designer must grasp the essence of the surrounding context.

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

L. McComber – architecture vivante explains how this project redevelops and highlights the essence of a small house in Montréal’s Cité-Jardin, a protected postwar neighbourhood development.

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.

The firm Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux presents the major restoration of a listed building that tells the story of a bygone era of Montréal.

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 firm Chevalier Morales architectes explains how the library has become an inclusive social space and a gathering place for the borough.

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.

Montréal’s first long-distance power station, this industrial building erected in 1903 was repurposed into 74 social-housing units for vulnerable families and small households.

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

This competition-winning concept by Projet Paysage and Blanchette Architectes goes beyond commemoration and celebrate community life, providing a renewed park experience for users.

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

A Pecha Kucha is an opportunity for meeting and exchange using efficient presentations: 20 slides, each displayed for 20 seconds.

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 included outreach events for the general public aimed at developing development strategies for the Griffintown district.

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.

Conference open to the public presenting five ways of stimulating quality in projects via specific public commissioning strategies.

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

This collaborative online space aims to document and celebrate heritage interiors as well as the knowledge and know-how enabling their conservation and enhancement.

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.

Comparative study of two public design competitions in New York City and presentation of their multidimensional benefits.