YUL-MTL: Moving Landscapes
International Ideas Competition

23.11.2011 ///  The winners of YUL-MTL : Moving landscapes international ideas competition on the Autoroute 20 gateway corridor linking the Montreal-Trudeau Airport to downtown are announced.  The three winning proposals selected by the jury stood out by their ability to integrate all of the planning issues involved in a territory project, such as those related with the quality of transport infrastructures, living and working environments and natural areas.

The international ideas competition aimed to develop strategic visions for the development of the 17 km corridor mainly composed of transport infrastructures, residential and industrials areas and brownfields in dire need of revitalization. It is important to stress that a large number of current and future projects are opening up a window of opportunity for the emergence of collaborative planning actions.

The competition results will enrich and illustrate the collaborative process already undertaken between the members of the working group. The ideas gathered during the competition will input the development of a joint program of actions that will focus on the quality of landscapes and living environments of the gateway corridor territory.

In this perspective, all winning proposals and honorary mentions of the international ideas competition will generate an “Catalogue of possibilities” to feed the discussion of the working group which already defined the design orientations of the competition which were:

• An evolving and emblematic landscape project for the metropolitan area
• A scenographic composition of the corridor experiences
• A collaborative approach to sustainable urban development

The jury has awarded three equal prizes of $ 33 000 to the following contestants:

• Brown and Storey Architects (Toronto, Canada), for their development of a strategy based on the densification of neighbourhoods
• dlandstudio (New York, USA), for their contextualisation of Montreal’s transport infrastructure problems into the North American context and for the proposed concepts to reduce the effects of barriers between neighbourhoods
• Gilles Hanicot (Montreal, Canada), for their proposal based on the uses of renewable energy structures to build new landmarks in the corridor and for the development of the mixed-use urban development program

WINNERS (ex-æquo)

	Brown and Storey Architects - Toronto, Canada Details
	Dlandstudio - New York, United States Details
	Gilles Hanicot - Montreal, Canada Details

The jury noted the richness of the competition results by awarding 11 honourable mentions. These provide new and multiple axes of development for Montreal territory.
 

MENTIONS

	Andrew Forster – Push Montréal - Montreal, Canada Details
	Catalyse Urbaine, architecture et paysage - Montreal, Canada Details
	Clément Boitel - Paris, France Details
	Dennis A. Winters, Tales of the Earth - Toronto, Canada Details
	Efoe Arnaud - Clermont-Ferrand, France Details
	SUPERLANDSCAPE  - Padova-Palermo, Italy Détails
	Gerwin De Vries + Alexander Herrebout - Utrecht, Netherlands Details
	Ghazal Jafari et Ali Fard - Toronto, Canada Details
	Thibodeau, architecture+design - Montreal, Canada Détails
	Yvette Vasourkova, MOBA Studio - Prague, Czech Republic Details
	zerOgroup + Fabrica de Paisaje - São Paulo, Brazil Details

At the end of the submission period, more than 60 proposals from 22 countries were received, of which a quarter were from Quebec.

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This initiative of the ministère des Transports du Québec, was conducted by the Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at the University of Montreal (CPEUM) in close partnership with the Autoroute 20 gateway corridor working group, constituted of representatives of cities and boroughs administrations, regional planning agencies and provincial departments.

For this project, CPEUM has worked in collaboration with the Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Consulat général de France à Québec.

 

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