Provencher_Roy specializes in architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, interior design and industrial design. Over the past 30 years, whether designing contemporary projects or remodeling iconic buildings, the firm has had a major impact on Montreal as well as other Canadian cities. Provencher_Roy has also developed an ability to provide established institutions with a new lease on life. The company employs more than 200 dedicated professionals working in all areas of the built environment in Canada and abroad. The firm’s portfolio demonstrates its outstanding achievements in the institutional sector, as well as in the fields of science, education and transportation buildings. Recognized in 2015 with the RAIC ’s Architectural Firm Award, Provencher_Roy has received numerous architecture and urban design awards in Canada and abroad. For more than forty years, Gagnon Letellier Cyr Ricard Mathieu et Associés architectes (GLCRM) has combined traditional services in architecture with a multidisciplinary approach that gathers specialists in architecture, interior design, planning and urban design, sustainable development, BIM and 3D modelling. After serving and developing a clientele in Quebec City’s private and public sectors, the firm began expanding its reach by creating multiple
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regional offices targeting markets in various regions of the province and elsewhere. GLCRM’s projects include the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, and the Centre Vidéotron and Jean-Lesage International Airport, both in Quebec City. The firm includes a team of fifty architects and collaborators, generating a wealth of expertise and experience in all facets of architecture and construction. More than half of the staff are architects, and many have been working with the team for more than a decade. This stability ensures continuous knowledge and expertise within the firm, allowing the studio to maintain a high quality standard in its services. The pairing of quality control methods with the pursuit of excellence has earned the team numerous awards and honours.
Provencher_Roy—Claude Provencher, Matthieu Geoffrion, Nicolas Demers-Stoddart, Maxime Giguère, Marilina Cianci, Andres Moreno, Daniel Legault, Sami Bouzouita. Missing: Émilie Banville, Maïda Beylerian, Fanette Montmartin, Franck Murat, Normand Desjardins, Karim Duranceau. GLCRM Architects—Janie Lacoursière, Josué Martineau, Jocelyn Martel, Réal St-Pierre, Suzanne Castonguay, Raphaël Hamelin, Louis-Xavier Gadoury, François Bécotte, Shirley Gagnon, Marc Letellier, Sarah Landry, Maxime Turgeon, Vincent Lavoie. Missing: Valérie Morin. LEFT TO RIGHT
Born and raised in Hungary and living in Vancouver, Lőrinc Vass is a designer with a B.F.A . in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia. His interests span architecture, urbanism and infrastructure. Vass has been involved in research projects ranging from representing contested Aboriginal landscapes along the coast of B.C. to documenting the socio-spatial products of real estate bubbles in Ireland, Spain and the U.S. He has also mapped the landscapes of unconventional fossil fuel extraction in Western Canada and envisioned the implications of self-driving cars on cities. Vass is currently teaching in the UBC Architecture Tokyo 2016 study abroad program, and hopes to continue explorations at the intersection of design, scholarship and education.
Alexander Ring is an intern architect who graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Architectural Science and the University of British Columbia with a Master of Architecture. Working at Adamson Associates, E.R.A. A rchitects, HCMA and Lamoureux Architect, Ring has been involved in a wide variety of projects. These include a commercial high-rise in New York, restoration and adaptive reuse work in Toronto, residential, community and faith buildings in British Columbia, community-led design projects in Canada and Kenya, and smallscale freelance design-build projects. Ring has a particular interest in the role of the architect as steward, and his realized and theoretical projects explore ways in which architecture can have agency. He is currently volunteering his project management and design expertise with not-for-profit Harambee 4 Humanity, where he is working towards the realization of Oleleshwa Primary School in the Maasai village of Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya.
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