Sponsor: City of Montréal, Rio Tinto Alcan
Type: International, RfP, 2-stage (Five finalists will be selected from anonymous first stage) In phase 2, the finalists will form multidisciplinary teams to develop and fine tune their concepts and submit them to the same jury. The winning team
will be announced next spring.
Eligibility: Registered architects
Language: French
Timetable:
11 December 2008 – Submission deadline for first stage proposals
Site:
The new Planetarium, with a gross surface area of roughly 8,000 m², will be
built on the Olympic Park site, next to the Biodôme, and will have to meet
LEED platinum standards.
Jury:
The jury members are Nils Larsson, architect and Director of iiSBE
(International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment); Lise Anne
Couture, architect with Asymptote, a New York firm; Marc Boutin, architect
and Associate Professor at the University of Calgary; Stéphane Roy, set
designer for Cirque du Soleil; Luc Courchesne, Professor,
Faculty of Environmental Design at the Université de Montréal; Maya Raic,
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Olympic Installations Board; Louise
Bédard, architect with Stoa architecture; Pierre Lacombe, Director of the
Planetarium; and Charles-Mathieu Brunelle, Director of Montréal’s Nature
Museums.
Anyone wishing to enter the competition must register. Only submissions
from parties who have obtained the free RFP documents from the Direction de
l’approvisionnement will be considered (documents are in French only).
To enter, contact:
The Direction de l’approvisionnement du Service des affaires corporatives
9515, rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal, Quebec, H2M 1Z4.
Regular office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Candidates may submit questions in writing to the Professional Advisor for
the competition, architect Louise Amiot,
by fax (418 692-5447)
or e-mail:(lasbarch@qc.aira.com).
