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AWARDS

In Memoriam -

Claude Provencher,

architect

Montréal, Canada

t is with great sadness that the
partners and staff at Provencher_
IRoy announce the death of Claude
Provencher, award-winning architect Claude Provencher
and co-founder of the practice, on May 6,
2022, at the age of 72.
Considered one of the instigators of In 1983, he founded Provencher_Roy Old Montréal. As the most visionary and
the new urban architecture that emerged with Michel Roy in Montréal and led transformative urban renewal project of
in Canada in the late 1970s, Claude the practice as senior designer for four its time, the World Trade Centre Montréal
Provencher will be remembered for his decades. Claude Provencher took an translated into an engaging campus vision
ambitious, contemporary projects that incisive look at the city and distinguished in which urban design and architecture
respect the genius loci. A firm believer himself early on by his avant-garde are woven together by modernity,
in the added value architecture brings to proposals, always mindful of economic revitalising an entire sector of the city
society, he fought for the recognition of and social contexts. and representing today an enduring
the profession in Quebec throughout his At the end of the 1980s, he took on the legacy project for the practice and for the
long career. fate of a neglected block in the heart of community.

Reception Pavilion at Québec's National Assembly
In consortium with GLCRM
Photo credit: Stéphane Groleau

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