On September 19, 2017, the City of Québec presented the three winning teams in the Reinventing Our Rivers competition. In attendance were Régis Labeaume, mayor of Québec City, and Julie Lemieux, vice chair of the executive committee responsible for culture, heritage, and urban planning.

The U.S. team CADASTER from Brooklyn took home the Reinventing Our Rivers $100,000 first prize. The second prize of $60,000 went to the White Arkitekter team, representing Norway, with members from Europe, the U.S., and Canada. The third place prize of $40,000 went to the JOO HYUNG OH team from Glendale, California.
?The quality of the proposals we received was very high, but the three selected by the jury stood out from the rest,? said Mayor Régis Labeaume. ?We?re thrilled by the ideas they came up with, and we now have a great jumping-off point to develop our rivers in the years ahead.? An international jury, led by architect Jandrik Hoesktra from the Netherlands, was assembled to select the winners:

Claude Cormier, landscape architect, Montréal
Jérôme Dupras, ecologist and professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau
Ken Greenberg, urban designer and professor at Ryerson University, Toronto
Julie Lemieux, vice chair of the executive committee responsible for culture, heritage, and urban planning, Québec City
Jacques Soignon, director of the Department of Green Spaces and the Environment, Nantes
Annie Tardivon, landscape architect, urban planner, and tenured profess...