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Left to right: Boris Morin-Defoy, Erwan Le Diraison, Paul Laurendeau, Renée-Claude Left to right: Francois R. Beauchesne, Maxime Gervais, Nathalie Langlois, Benoît-Simon Lagacé. Lord, Robert Mailhot, Joanie Desrosiers, Étienne Paradis, Chantal Corbin. Absent: Jean-Yves Rouleau, Marie-Ève Lachapelle, Julie Martel. Paul Laurendeau established his firm in Mon treal in 1995 after gaining international experience with renowned architects in London and Paris. His initial work includes competition submissions in which he explored and devel oped a style of creating stark spaces organized along orthogonal axes. Laurendeau’s archi tecture is an artistic undertaking rooted in proportions and geometry that play on symmetry, repetition and verticality to create a tangible effect with one’s perception of space. His work has received numerous design awards
including Awards of Excellence from the Ordre des architectes du Québec for Fashionlab in 2003, Desert in 2005 and Dolbeau-Mistassini Theatre in 2009, along with a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence in 2006. His most important project to date is the 9,000-seat Trois-Rivières amphitheatre currently under construction, the result of a competition he won in 2011. Established in 1990, Beauchesne Architecture Design is located in Trois-Rivières. With its team of architects, technicians and designers,
it integrates various skills allowing it to offer complete professional services to its clientele throughout the province of Quebec. Focusing primarily on institutional, health care, education, commercial, housing and industrial projects, Beauchesne stresses the need to create good working conditions for its staff where client respect is paramount. It derives the greatest satisfaction from creating quality spaces for the users that will inhabit them.
Zeidler Partnership Architects has been established for 50 years in Toronto, which now serves as headquarters for the firm with additional offices in Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Abu Dhabi, London, Berlin and West Palm Beach. With over 200 professional and support staff members, most senior personnel have been with the firm for 10 to 30 years, and are currently led by senior partners Alan Munn, Tarek El-Khatib and Vaidila Banelis. The firm’s projects cover virtually the entire range of architectural, urban and interior design work, varying from large mixed-use complexes to small residences and offices. The major body of work is located in Canada and the United States, but the firm has also, over the past 25 years, developed a significant international presence in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Zeidler has been recognized by its peers with over 140 national and international awards, and more than 400 articles on the firm have been published in its distinguished and long history. Left to right: Don Vetere, Tarek El-Khatib, Dalibor Vokac, Neal Panchuck. 12/12 canadian architect
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