The Mouvement d’implication francophone d’Orléans cultural centre is a space offering a multitude of activities – both diverse and collaborative. The Franco-Ontarian community benefits from its facilities for sporting, cultural, linguistic, and even recreational activities. Through its luminous highly fenestrated design, this project therefore reflects the mission to promote the MIFO to the local population […]

A true cultural and community hub, the new Kahnawà:ke Cultural Arts Center will meet the growing needs of the Kanien’kehá:ka community. The project revolves around a central space, a common area accessible to all, linking all the institutions: a museum, a theatre, a cultural and language school, an outdoor amphitheatre and a multi-purpose room.

Since 2019, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) headquarters, cradle of Canadian cinematographic culture, occupies the first six levels of the magnificent Îlot Balmoral. Adjoining Place des Arts, this important institution is situated in the heart of Montréal. “We presented four visions of what a building designed specifically for a cultural economy could look […]

EXPANSION The new Pierre Lassonde Pavilion of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, realized by the OMA* AMO Architecture P.C. / Provencher_ Roy, imparts a newfound architectural cohesiveness to the Musée and increases by 90% the exhibition space. Linked to the existing museum complex by a 130.6 meters long passageway, the building aims to weave […]

STRUT THE CATWALK! The avenue du Musée was crossed by a huge, colourful silhouette during the Thierry Mugler: Couturissime exhibition. Traced on the ground and visible from the sky, the intervention was inspired by three of Mugler’s key themes – texture, metamorphosis and femininity, extending the exhibition into the public domain through the use of […]

The Canada Aviation and Space Museum embarked on a major expansion project in 2003 in response to a significant increase in its collections and programs.  The architectural expression of this extension is inspired by the aerodynamic shape of an airplane wing. The construction is industrial and uses the vocabulary of traditional hangars with their curved, […]

The new Fort de Ville-Marie building will be part of the Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, a major development project that will incorporate the Montréal Museum’s current buildings: the Éperon, the Ancienne-Douane, Youville Pumping Station and the Mariners’ House. The Fort de Ville-Marie project is located in Montréal’s Old Port on the site of the […]

National competition finalist Provencher_Roy submitted an original proposal in the architecture competition launched in June 2017 for the renewal of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), for which the construction budget is $22 million. To boost the MAC’s patronage and develop the museum’s clientele, the firm chose to explore the correlation between the evolution […]

The Pointe-à-Callière Museum conforms to the triangular shape of the property, in addition to maintaining the volumetrics and proportions of the Royal Insurance building – the last one to occupy the site. Like a missing link added to a chain, the museum unifies and restores continuity to the series of fragmented structures along de la […]

COMPETITION The proposal submitted in the architecture contest for the multifunctional room of the Cégep du Vieux Montréal and the Maison Théâtre aims to completely free up the principal facade so it can house animated public spaces opening onto the street. This intervention helps create safe, pleasant and visually permeable entrances along Ontario St., for […]