Design of Espace Rivière in Rivière-des-Prairies

This multidisciplinary architecture competition an opportunity to endow the Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood with a distinctive building with an original design that will raise the area’s profile and enable it to positively differentiate itself, while fulfilling the city’s duty to be exemplary in promoting design excellence and strengthening Montréal’s status as a UNESCO City of Design.

Description
The Ville de Montréal is launching a multidisciplinary architecture competition for the design of Espace Rivière, a project to house a library and maison de la culture, along with community and recreational spaces and an Accès Montréal office in a de-partitioned building.
It will be implemented on the site of the existing library at 9001 Boulevard Perras, on the southwest corner of the Pôle civique René Masson, renamed the Pôle Espace Rivière, in the Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood of the Arrondissement Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles.
The subject of this competition is the Espace Rivière construction project in the Arrondissement Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles. A new building and/or expansion is to be built on the site of the existing library at the corner of Perras and Rodolphe-Forget boulevards in the Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood. The multidisciplinary architecture competition will involve construction totalling approximately 10,060 m2 of gross floor area.
Competitors are free to submit what they consider to be the most relevant of the potential architectural solutions--retain, redevelop and expand, or deconstruct the existing building and construct a new one--provided that the needs of the program and requirements of the property owner are fulfilled.
Competitors' considerations must include, but are not limited to, the pros and cons relative to the site's architectural and development potential, the project's environmental value and the investment required.

Jury
Étienne Bernier, architect, Étienne Bernier Architecture
Ismaïla Camara, Engineer, Arrondissement de Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles
Maya El Kheir, architect, Division Équipements culturels et bureau d'art public, Service de la culture, Ville de Montréal
Caroline Lajoie, architect, CIRCUM.ARCHITECTURE
Ford McKeown Larose, dancer and choreographer, Forward Movements
Sylvie Perrault, architect, Perrault Architecture
Jenny Salgado, musician and multidisciplinary artist
Peter Soland, architect, civiliti
Claude Toupin, Section Chief, Division culture et bibliothèques, Arrondissement de Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles

Prize
The maximum amount budgeted for the professional fees to be paid for completion of the project is $6,340,000, taxes included (and including the fees paid for Stage 2).
Finalists (Stage 2)
Each finalist who presents a service offering deemed compliant with the Rules will receive a lump sum of $130,000, before taxes.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Stage 2 deadline: Finalists' service offerings September 13, 2022

Organizer
Ville de Montréal

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