OTTAWA — The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has announced the founders of the Montreal firm Saucier + Perrotte Architectes as the recipients of the 2018 RAIC Gold Medal.
The firm was cited in a recent media statement for having “consistently produced refined, elegant and modern buildings, many for the public, for 30 years.”
Saucier + Perrotte represented Canada at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004 and has received more than 100 awards, including eight Governor General’s Medals in Architecture and the Government of Quebec’s Prix Ernest Cormier for lifetime achievement.
“They have built and maintained a high quality of work for decades,” said the five-member selection jury. “They are one of the few firms that are recognized both nationally and internationally. The work is always innovative and interesting. It’s timeless, consistently elegant, beautifully detailed. They integrate nature beautifully.”
The Gold Medal is the highest honour RAIC offers, the statement indicated. It’s intended to recognize “a significant and lasting contribution to Canadian architecture.”
The medal will be presented at the RAIC/AANB Festival of Architecture, taking place in Saint John from May 30 to June 2.
“They are ambassadors for Canadian architecture,” said the jury. “They don’t compromise. Their work inspires and delights. Their projects are functional, sculptural and beautiful in the landscape. They are spaces that one enjoys being in.”
Saucier + Perrotte has designed theatres (Usine C and Cinematheque Quebecoise in Montreal); commercial spaces (the Michel Brisson boutiques and Scandinave Les Bains Vieux Montreal); garden pavilions (First Nations Pavilion at the Botanical Garden in Montreal); and the Canadian embassy in Abu Dhabi.
The firm’s university projects include the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont. and the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (with Hughes Condon Marler Architects) in Vancouver. They have also completed sports facilities such as the new Stade de Soccer de Montreal (with HCMA Architecture + Design) as well as private residences, exhibitions and art centres.
Saucier is the firm’s design partner while Perrotte is the project architect in charge of co-ordinating the design and construction process. Both are graduates of the Laval University school of architecture in Quebec City.
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