Evergreen Brick Works project receives prestigious Holcim Award for sustainable construction 2008
Thursday October 16, 2008Evergreen Brick Works project receives prestigious Holcim Award for sustainable construction
The winners of the second North American Holcim Awards competition for Sustainable Construction projects were announced at a ceremony in Montreal. Total prize was presented to nine projects from Canada and the United States that showcase the latest approaches to address critical topics including housing affordability, employment, renewable energy, and water efficiency. The competition is run in parallel in five regions of the world by the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. Almost 5000 projects from 90 countries entered the competition which aims to promote sustainable responses from the building and construction industry to technological, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues.
Evergreen Brick Works received the Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize on October 16th in Montreal.
The client : Evergreen
Team: du Toit Architects, du Toit Allsopp Hillier; Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes Inc; Diamond and Schmitt Architects Inc; E.R.A. Architects Inc; Halsall; Stantec; BA Group; TSH; David Dennis Design; Leber Rubes; The MMM Group; Dougan & Associates; Ferruccio Sardella; Eastern Construction
Tate Britain, lecture
Wednesday April 16, 2008Claude Cormier has been invited to lecture at Tate Britain in London, for a one-day symposium on the topic of Landscape Conceptualism. Six others designers will also be invited to talk about their work, which are:
Stig Andersson (Copenhague, Denmark) Andy Cao (Us/Paris) Kate Cullity (Adelaide, Australia) Monika Gora (Malmo, Sweden) Eelco Hooftman (Edinburgh, UK) Tim Richardson (London UK)
The lecture is scheduled for July 9, 2008.
Personality of the Week
Sunday February 24, 2008This week Claude Cormier received the honour of being “Personality of the Week” by La Presse/Radio Canada. This nomination gave rise to a series of interviews in the newspaper La Presse, on television with RDI, and on radio with the French version of CBC Radio One.
Top prize for our website
Friday February 8, 2008Our new website has just won the top prize in the GRAFIKA annual graphic design competition, in the digital media/corporate website category. The website was created by the group Uniform with a team made up of:
Artistic directors: Éric Dubois et Patrick Pellerin
Design – Noémie Darveau, Éric Dubois et Patrick Pellerin
Writer and project manager – Jacques Perron
Programming – Sébastien Morin
Jarvis Slip Public Design Competition Winner
Friday February 1, 2008
The jury of Jarvis Slip Public Space Design Competition organised by Waterfront Toronto have unanimously selected the Claude Cormier, architectes paysagistes team's design "Sugar Beach" as the winning submission. "The jury appreciated the big idea approach for the design of Jarvis Slip with its connectivity and integration to the central waterfront promenade design, and the proposal for the establishment of a larger greater system of beach designs throughout Toronto's waterfront" stated Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects, and Chair of the jury. The winning design successfully created three distinct spaces, a public plaza, a promenade, and a sand beach along the dock wall. Sugar Beach is the second urban beach proposed for Toronto's downtown waterfront, following the first very successful HtO Park.
The conceptual reference for Sugar Beach is based on the industrial heritage of the adjacent Redpath Sugar Refinery, just west of the site. The jury agreed that the design had a confidence, a purity and a playfulness that would make "Sugar Beach" a favourite destination. The jury felt that the Claude Cormier "Sugar Beach" team best addressed the competition's key objective of providing a signature urban public space that will anchor the new East Bayfront community. Beyond the principal concept designer Claude Cormier architectes paysagistes,the other members of the Sugar Beach design team include, the Planning Partnership team, Beth Kapusta communication resource, and the lighting designer Leni Schwendinger.