YUL_MTL: Moving Landscapes

Result

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

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Overview

We are pleased to officially launch an international ideas competition in urban design for the gateway corridor linking Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to its downtown area (MTL) along Autoroute 20.

Description
The Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at University of Montreal (CPEUM) is pleased to officially launch an international ideas competition in urban design for the gateway corridor linking Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to its downtown area (MTL) along Autoroute 20. The competition, entitled YUL_MTL: Moving Landscapes, aims to reinvent the landscapes that highlight Montreal’s international gateway corridor.
The 17 km gateway corridor, which is mostly made up of transport infrastructures and brownfields, is witnessing a large number of development infrastructural projects, thus offering considerable urban innovation potential.
The proposals should revolve along three work streams:
- An evolving and emblematic landscape project for the metropolitan area
- A scenographic composition of the corridor experiences
- A collaborative approach to sustainable urban development

Jury
Bernardo Secchi, italian architect and urban planner
Pierre Bélanger, associate professor in landscape architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
Ken Greenberg, architect and urban designer, Greenberg consultants inc., Toronto
Florence Junca-Adenot, founder of the Forum Urba 2015, Université du Québec à Montréal
Anick La Bissonnière, architect and scenic designer, Atelier Labi, Montréal
Maroun Shaneen, representative of the ministère des Transports du Québec

Prize
A total of $100,000 CAN will be awarded to and shared between 3 laureates.
At the end of the competition, laureates will be invited on November 20th and 21st to present their ideas at the Montréal 2011 Workshop_atelier/terrain (WAT).

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Workshop: November 20th, 2011

Organizer
The Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at University of Montreal (CPEUM)

Official Website
http://mtlunescodesign.com/en/projet/YUL-MTL....