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                                   Project: Expérience Chute
                               Design: Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker
                             Client: Société des établissements de plein air
                                     du Québec (Sépaq)
                                Location: Capitale-Nationale Region
                                 Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet





                           Winning Projects in the 2022 Prix d’excellence

                                          en architecture Unveiled


                                                   Montréal, Canada


                 he Ordre des architectes du   The 2022 Grand Prix d’excellence was   annual visitors. Jury members hailed the
                 Québec (OAQ) has unveiled the   awarded to the Daoust Lestage Lizotte   project’s bold, unadorned, and judicious
           Twinners of its awards of excellence   Stecker for the firm's 'Expérience Chute',   architectural statement, which perfectly
           and distinctions for 2022. Fourteen   a redesigned pavilion and walkway   frames a distinctive natural treasure. They
           projects were recognised at a ceremony   at the foot of Montmorency Falls   also called Expérience Chute a compelling
           this evening at the Théâtre St-James in   near Québec City. New facilities were   demonstration of how architects can
           Montréal, attended by members of the   needed to highlight the natural beauty   successfully work on the margins of
           architecture community and partner   of this emblematic site and to create a   conventional  practice,  incorporating
           representatives.                   renewed experience for some 800,000   the disciplines of planning, design, and
                                                                                landscape  architecture.  Meanwhile,
                                                                                the Prix du public (People’s Choice
                                                                                award)  was  awarded  to  the  final  phase
                                                                                of the CHUM hospital complex project,
                                                                                comprising the Amphithéâtre Pierre-
                                                                                Péladeau, which also won the award in
                                                                                the Public Institutional Building category.


                                                                                Winners of the 2022 Prix d’excellence en
                                                                                architecture, by category
                                                                                Grand Prix d’excellence
                                                                                  Project: Expérience Chute
                                                                                  Design: Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker
                                                                                  Client: Société  des établissements de
                                                                                plein air du Québec (Sépaq)
                                                                                  Location: Capitale-Nationale Region
                                                                                  Photos: Maxime Brouillet
                                                                                Cultural Building
                                                                                •   Project: Biodôme Migration
                                                                                •   Design:  KANVA   Architecture
                                                                                    in  collaboration  with  NEUF
                                                         Project: Expérience Chute  architect(e)s
                                                 Design: Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker  •   Client: Space for Life – City of
                                             Client: Société des établissements de plein air   Montréal
                                                             du Québec (Sépaq)
                                                  Location: Capitale-Nationale Region  •   Location: Montréal
                                                      Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet



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