Three teams are left in the running in the competition for a public art project at Parc des Rapides to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the former municipality of LaSalle:
- Jacques Bilodeau and Claude Cormier + Associés
- Carlos et Jason Sanchez and NIPpaysage
- Jonathan Villeneuve + Vlan paysages + Contexture
This project will create a structure for the park and be evocative for residents of LaSalle. The work will be closely tied to Parc des Rapides: not only will it contribute to the landscape of this historically significant site, but the landscape will also contribute to it. This encounter of artwork and landscape will be realized in a successful dialogue between an artist and a landscape architect. The winning concept will be unveiled in May 2014, and the artwork will be inaugurated in 2016.
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Artists Valérie Kolakis, Yannick Pouliot, and Chih-Chien Wang are the finalists in the competition for an artwork to be integrated with Bibliothèque Saul-Bellow in Lachine, which will be expanded, modernized, and completely rethought. Based on the needs of today’s society, the library will offer a place for socializing. Hybrid and accessible, it will also be designed with a view to sustainable development by accentuating luminosity and flexible spaces. Aside from the reading areas, the library will contain multifunctional and training rooms, a bistro, an area for young people, and an audio-video section.
The artwork will be integrated into the exterior facades of the existing building. The artist will be able to use all of the surfaces made of concrete panels that reflect the brutalist aesthetic of the 1970s. The chosen concept will be revealed in the spring of 2014. The artwork, produced under the auspices of the Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement des bâtiments et des sites gouvernementaux et publics (the 1% policy), will be inaugurated in early 2015, with the library.
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