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Provencher_Roy received a National Urban Design Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) for its Technopôle Angus ? Phase II development project, during the RAIC’s 2016 Festival of Architecture.
The National Urban Design Awards celebrate excellence in urban design, emphasizing the important role it plays in maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in Canadian cities. Claude Provencher, architect, senior partner and co-founder, Matthieu Geoffrion, architect and partner, and Sylvain Gariépy, urban planner and partner, attended the event in Nanaimo.
The festival jury awarded the prize to Technopôle Angus ? Phase II because ?the design creates a public realm with a high degree of pedestrian connectivity and permeability. The plan includes its own validation, outlines clear objectives and then demonstrates how it is meeting those objectives. This exemplary rationalization of the design of the public realm will serve as a clear guide for subsequent architectural development.? Photo credit: Provencher_Roy
Located inside the limits of the Rosemont?La Petite-Patrie borough and built on the brownfields of the storied Angus Shops, the Technopôle Angus is a real estate complex with a mission to create jobs in Montreal. The urban plan for the Îlot central (Phase II), steered by the Société de développement Angus (SDA), concerns the last vacant lot of the area still available, and is part of an initiative to revitaliz...