Montreal

+ 14

• Architects

  Architecture49

• Location

  Île-des-Sœurs, Montreal, Quebec H3E, Canada

• Area

  855.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Stéphane Brügge

This article was originally published on November 25, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Architects have never enjoyed a position of such supreme prominence as they did in the worldview of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller. To him, architects alone were capable of understanding and navigating the complex interrelationships of society, technology, and environment as viewed through the comprehensive paradigm of systems theory. Architecture, in this model, was intended to exist in close contact with both mankind and nature, playing civilization’s most critical role in elevating the state of humanity and promoting its responsible stewardship of the environment. Emerging from the ethical positivity of postwar modernism, this melioristic perspective marks perhaps the zenith of optimism’s ascent in mid-twentieth century thought, and gave Fuller a uniquely moral blueprint for his revolutionary designs.

+ 12

+ 14

• Architects

  Nature Humaine

• Location

  Montreal, Canada

• Area

  900.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

+ 24

• Architects

  Paul Bernier Architecte

• Location

  Montreal, Canada

• Lead Architects

  Paul Bernier

• Area

  1950.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2007

• Photographs

  Marc Cramer, Paul Bernier and Vittorio Vieira

+ 20

• Architects

  NatureHumaine

• Location

  Beaubien street, Montréal, QC, Canada

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

+ 11

• Architects

  Alain Carle Architecte

• Location

  Montreal, QC, Canada

• Area

  140.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

+ 20

• Architects

  NatureHumaine

• Location

  Ville-Marie, Montreal, QC, Canada

• General Contractor

  CDO Renovation

• Area

  1980.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

+ 14

• Architects

  Paul Bernier Architecte

• Location

  Montreal, Canada

• Lead Architects

  Paul Bernier

• Area

  2100.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

+ 23

• Architects

  Studio Michel de Broin

• Location

  International Civil Aviation Organization Plaza, City of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Lead Architects

  Artist, Michel de Broin

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Jules Deauchamp-Desbiens, Michel de Broin, Aida Lorain

+ 25

• Architects

  Atelier Big City, FSA Architecture Inc, L’OEUF Architects

• Location

  Montreal, QC, Canada

• Architect in Charge

  Atelier Big City

• Area

  4500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Steve Monpetit, Ulysse Lemerise B, Jean-Marc Besacier, Benoit Faure, Alain Laforest

Three award-winning architecture firms, Lemay, Perkins+Will, and Bisson Fortin, will design a new 67-km sustainable system of light-rail train stations for one of North America’s largest public transportation projects, the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) in Montreal. This system of train stations will be designed as part of NouvLR General Partnership’s recently won contract and will connect Montréal-Trudeau International Airport with the city’s downtown area, as well as the north and south shores of the region.

+ 21

• Architects

  BOOM TOWN

• Location

  Montreal, Canada

• Area

  3600.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Steve Montpetit

+ 19

• Architects

  NatureHumaine

• Location

  Outremont, Montreal, QC, Canada

• Area

  350.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

Gilles Saucier, FIRAC, and André Perrotte, FIRAC, founding partners of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, have been awarded the 2018 RAIC Gold Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada to an individual or team of individuals in recognition of “a significant and lasting contribution to Canadian architecture.”

Founded in Montreal in 1988, Saucier + Perrotte Architectes have worked at the highest levels over their 30 year career, completing a range of project types both within Canada and internationally. The firm was lauded by the jury for pushing boundaries of innovation while maintaining a sense of elegance and refinement.

+ 12

+ 19

• Architects

  L’Abri

• Location

  Montréal, Canada

• Lead Architects

  Nicolas Lapierre, Francis Pelletier, Francis Martel Labrecque

• Area

  176.5 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Jack Jérôme

+ 12

• Architects

  Atelier Urban Face

• Location

  Mount Royal Park, 1260 Chemin Remembrance, Montréal, QC H3H 1A2, Canada

• Team

  Sylvie Perrault, Pierre Morency, Geneviève Bouthillier-Martel, Émilie Fortier and Éloize Cotnoir

• Area

  45.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Fany Ducharme, Sylvain Legault, Normand Rajotte

+ 25

• Architects

  David Dworkind

• Location

  1211 Rue Bélanger, Montréal, QC H2S 1H7, Canada

• Area

  1750.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  David Dworkind