McGill College: An Avenue Reinvented , Montreal/ Kanada

McGill College: An Avenue Reinvented

Organizers
Ville de Montréal
ville.montreal.qc.ca

Competition Contact
All communications must be e-mailed to the professional consultant at:
concours.mcgillcollege@gmail.com.

Competition Assignment
The Ville de Montréal is launching an international multidisciplinary urban design competition for the development of Place de l’Avenue McGill College.

This public square will be created by pedestrianizing Avenue McGill College over its full length, comprising four sections, from Rue Cathcart to Rue Sherbrooke Ouest.

The aim of the competition is to select a spatial design concept for the entirety of Place de l’Avenue McGill College. The concept must meet and even surpass the City’s expectations regarding the challenges posed by the Project that is the subject of the competition, and which are described in the Competition Program. At the end of the competition, the jury will select and recommend a winner and, subject to approval by the relevant municipal authorities, the City will award the winner a contract to provide the professional services required to complete the project.

Competition Type
International multidisciplinary urban design competition

Participants
Landscape architects, engineers, city planners, traffic planners

Jury
Sébastien Deshaies, engineer, Section Chief, Engineering Project Design and Execution, Service des infrastructures et du réseau routier, Division des grands projets, Ville de Montréal
Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun, Co–Art Director and Lighting Designer, Atomic 3, Montréal
Mélanie Glorieux, landscape architect, Partner, Groupe Rousseau Lefebvre, Montréal
Olivier Philippe, landscape architect, Founding Partner, Agence Ter, Paris
Christiane Rail, architect, Section Head, Projet de la rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Service de l’urbanisme et de la mobilité, Ville de Montréal
Lola Sheppard, architect and Partner, Lateral Office, Toronto
Christian Bissonnette, Associate Director, Direction des travaux publics, Arrondissement de Ville-Marie, Ville de Montréal
Nik Luka, associate professor, School of Urban Planning and School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal
Cécile Baird, architect and urban designer, Montréal

Compensation
Competitors (Stage 1):
No fees or allowances will be paid at this stage of the competition.

Finalists (Stage 2):
Each finalist who presents a service offering deemed compliant with the Rules will receive a lump sum of $84,000, taxes included.

Grand Finalists (Stage 3 – optional):
Each grand finalist who, at the request of the jury, presents a complementary service offering that is deemed compliant with the Rules will receive an additional lump sum of $7,000, taxes included.

Winner:
The maximum amount budgeted for the professional fees to be paid to the winner is $2,811,692, excluding taxes, and provisions (including the fees paid for Stages 2 and 3).

Documents and Registration
Interested competitors must obtain the competition documents through the website of the Système électronique d’appel d’offres SEAO (prior registration is required to do so). The documents will be available from October 30 to December 19, 2019.

Submission Location and Deadline
Competitors’ or finalists’ complete proposal or service offering dossiers must be received by the following dates at the address below:

Stage 1 / Anonymous proposals:
Thursday, December 19, 2019, noon Eastern Time

Stage 2 / Finalists’ service offerings:
Friday, April 24, 2020, noon Eastern Time

Stage 3 / Grand finalists’ complementary service offerings:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, noon Eastern Time

Submission address:
McGill College : l’avenue réinventée
Concours international de design urbain pluridisciplinaire
700, rue De la Gauchetière Ouest, 28e étage
Montréal (Québec) H3B 5M2
Canada

More information and details at
designmontreal.com/en/competitions/mcgill-college-an-avenue-reinvented