CALL FOR CANDIDATES: Landscape Architecture Competition for the greening of Place de l’Acadie |
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| The Borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville is launching a Québec-wide landscape architecture competition for development of a green area at Place de l’Acadie, located southwest of the intersection of boulevards de l’Acadie and Henri-Bourassa. The project includes the revegetation of the site and the addition of mist makers. |
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| VIDEO: New NDG Cultural Centre on the horizon |
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| Learn about the objectives and issues behind the architectural competition for the future Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Cultural Centre in a new video vignette that has just been posted online. Other vignettes introducing the winning architectural design team and the proposals submitted by the other finalist teams will be online soon. |
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| NETWORK: Saint-Étienne and Sydney join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network |
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| On November 22, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova announced the arrival of two new cities within the organization’s Creative Cities Network. Saint-Etienne, France, becomes the ninth member of the “UNESCO Cities of Design” sub-network, to which Montréal belongs, while Sydney, Australia, has been designated as the second “UNESCO City of Film.” |
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| APPOINTMENT: Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec named to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO |
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Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, a full professor in the Université de Montréal’s School of Architecture and Landscape, has just been appointed to the Natural, Social and Human Sciences Committee of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. He will represent the university’s UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design, co-producer of the Building Montréal, UNESCO City of Design initiative.
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