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Place Jacques-Cartier / Jacques-Cartier Square

Stage 1

Jacques Rousseau (First prize ex aequo)

Douglas S. Kelbaugh (First prize ex aequo)

Patrick T.Y. Chan (First prize ex aequo)

Katsuhiro Kobayashi (First prize ex aequo)

J.A. Griffiths (First prize ex aequo)

Tony Fretton (Special merit award)

Robert S. Livesey (Special merit award)

Cheryl O'Neill

Dan Hanganu

Waclaw Celadyn

Achille Michelizzi

Richard Dulude

Aurèle Cardinal

Gilles Saucier

Jan Vasalek

Raymond Jean Rocher

Augusto Quijano Axle

Lucas Rios Giordano

Berardo Dujovne, Jorge R. Erbin

Uwe Drost, Erhard Schuetz

Mark R. Mendell

Robert Tavernor

Paul Monaghan

Alberto Galardi

Hubert Culham

Paul R. Mortensen

Steven K. Peterson

Luc Durand

Luc Fortin

Doru Vasil

Didier Poirier, Eva Vecsei

Jacques Courbon

Béatrice Hajjar

Alain Belhassen

Jorgen Rasmussen

Wade Berthal Eide

John D. Consolati

Kjell Kosberg

Benjamin C. Stein

Petr Franta

Pierre Delisle

Michel Dubuc

Nan Griffiths, Réal Paul

Maurice S. Amiel

Ernesto Zepeda Aranda

Anonyme

Eva M. Martin

Ilmo Valjakka

Honorata Pienkwoska-Roseman

Leslie H. Kenyon

Nigel Anthony Holloway

Bernd Obersteiner

Alexandre Trumic

Kurt-Hans Lehmann

Bernard Dehertogh

Ognjen Djurovic

Martin Holub

Drago Mrazovac

Kus

Juan Daniel Fullaondo

Tony Watkins

Denis Martineau

Gunther Hastrich

Luiz Fernando Rocco

Dominic Robert

Eugenio Donato

Luigi Monti

Hatem Amin, Raef Fahmi, Ahmed Mito

Henrique Silva Raposo

Milos Bobic

F. Dominique Gillet

Pierre Drolez

Marrius Stoenescu

Levente B. Danko

Jean-Pascal Verdier

Eduardo Carqueijeiro

Gerhard Kleindienst

Yoshiteru Vesato

Toshio Okuno

Gong Zejun

Samir Kamel

Jaroslav Kachlik

Ian Mclver

Margaret Chow

Scott Strumwasser

Wolfgang Söder

Evelyne Deschamps

John T. Hoal

Georges Bulette

Georges Robert

Börkur Bergmann

Ivan Nikolov Nikiforov

Jean-Guy Côté

Jean-Louis Lalonde

Dennis Warrilow

Jean-Pierre Lagacé

Marc Claude Robert

Maciej Strzelecki

Mario V. Petrone

Jose Antonio Rage Mafud

R.M.J. Bertels

David Scott Slovic

Moshé Peled

Oriol Clos

Zafer Akay

Philippe Barrette

Luca Zevi

Boleslav Ryzinski

Lucie Ruelland

Jerome Morley Larson Sr.

Michel Gosselin

Naguib Amin

Carlo Teoldi

Barrie Walsh

Giovanni Maccione

Lubomir Bonev

Fred L. Good

Gregory Beck

Neville Ravensdale

R. James Aitken

Sohrab Mashhoodi

Radu Juster

winner

Jacques Rousseau

winner

Douglas S. Kelbaugh

winner

Patrick T.Y. Chan

winner

Katsuhiro Kobayashi

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	1990
Location	Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	122

Price by stage	80 000$

Professional advisor	Jean-Luc Poulin
Jury president	François Chaslin, Rédacteur en chef
Doc. level	75%

Description

The City of Montreal (under Jean Doré) and the Ministry of Culture launched the idea competition in 1990 with the aim of gathering proposals from around the world and creating guidelines for the future redevelopment of Place Jacques Cartier. They received 122 proposals from 28 different countries, a scale never before achieved by a Montreal competition.

Located in the heart of Montreal's historic district, the competition aims to redevelop two major public spaces: Place Jacques Cartier and rue Saint-Paul. It also includes two blocks to the east of the square (following the closure of a road tunnel and the demolition of a parking lot), as well as the redefinition of Le Royer, Saint-Claude and Notre-Dame streets.

The aim is to highlight a major square in Montréal's history, to make it an essential axis and a dynamic, contemporary and integrated space. Two objectives were put forward: the extension of the square to create a visual corridor and a harmonious connection between the city and the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River, as well as the enhancement of the historic district.
The main issues addressed are the development and internal organization of Place Jacques Cartier, pedestrian traffic, the connections between the square and the St. Lawrence River and respect for the built heritage.

(CCC translation)

Jury comments

A first prize was not awarded by the jury since none of the members found any project which was absolutely convincing amongst those submitted.

Five equal prizes have been awarded which recognize the different merits of the projects; and two special mentions which the jury wishes to distinguish for their originality while recognizing that they have not met certain requirements of the regulations.

In retaining seven projects and not three as was originally expected, in awarding them equally and in offering them for the attention of the public, the jury wants to make it very clear:
- That no project was completely satisfactory from the point of view of its architectural expression or from the point of view of its ability to respond in a synthetic way to the urban problem which was posed, notably the treatment of Place Jacques-Cartier and its extension in the direction of the river and the planning and design of the blocks at the north-east end of the site;

- that in return, many projects demonstrated a solid professional approach and contained a certain number of ideas which, in the future, could aid in the definition of an urban design framework for this strategic sector of Vieux-Montréal.

This competition, being one for the generation of ideas, the sponsors have clearly indicated that this competition was not for the selection of a project which the author would be automatically contracted to construct, quite the contrary, the sponsors have reserved the right to "... eventually retain one or another of the contestants as consultants or as participants in the implementation of projects". The jury considered that it was desirable, in the absence of a project of very superior quality, to recognize several.

The jury hopes that this part will aid in understanding the difficult problems presented by the Place Jacques-Cartier site and will illuminate the proposals, often fragmentary, often internally contradictory, that were submitted. The interest of this type of competition, which is by its nature rich in information, is as much to identify possible approaches as to identify things to be avoided.

(From specialized magazine)

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury president	François Chaslin, Rédacteur en chef
Jury	James Alexander, Architecte
	Athanase Aravantinos, Architecte urbaniste
	Gérard Benoit, Architecte
	François Chaslin, Rédacteur en chef
	David Farley, Architecte urbaniste
	Phyllis Lambert, Architecte
	Patricia Patkau, Architecte
	Ranko Radovic, Architecte urbaniste



Technical Commitee	Victor Lambert
	Pierre Sainte-Marie

Calendar

Start of registration: February 1 1990
Registration deadline: May 15 1990
Sending of the competition rules and programmes to competitors: May 15 1990
Deadline for receipt of questions: June 15 1990
Sending answers to questions: June 29 1990
Projects delivered by courier or cancelled before: August 15 1990
Deadline for the arrival of projects (17:00, local time): August 30 1990
Jury deliberations: September 4 to 7 1990
Announcement of the winners of the "Place Jacques-Cartier": September 8 1990
Public exhibition of the "Place Jacques-Cartier" projects: September 1990

(From competition brief)

(Unofficial automated translation)

Press Review

Cha, Jonathan, L'expression des traces du passé comme processus de redéfinition identitaire et urbaine Regard sur la reconstruction des espaces publics du Vieux-Montréal, 2009

Brodeur, Mario, Vieux-Montréal : Lieux de mémoire, mémoire des lieux, 2005

Clermont, Renée, Le Concours international de Montréal, place Jacques-Cartier, 1993

List of general documents

(not accessible)

Programme
Règlement
Rapport du jury (global)
Documentation graphique
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Règlement
Documentation
Programme
Documentation

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