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In 2014, after a long process, in 3 competitions organized in parallel by the Montreal Botanical Garden museum institution Space for Life, 3 projects were selected in coincidence with the celebrations of the 375th anniversary of Montreal.
The implementation of two of them did not begin until 2018 with the temporary closure of the Biodôme, and then with that of the insectarium in 2019. The Biodome reopened to visitors in 2020 and the insectarium is scheduled to be completed in June 2021. The third was to reinvent the rose garden set in the Glass Pavilion of the Botanical Garden. The project has already been forgotten, including by the media. It is now to be regretted, as it was designed by Lacaton and Vassal, valiant winners of the Pritzker Prize in 2021.
La Maison Hatley
WINNER OF A 2020 CANADIAN ARCHITECT PHOTO AWARD OF MERIT
“This image has an interesting, powerful composition. The light is fairly even; the sky and snow have the same quality of light. The tactile nature of the skin of the barns is quite beautiful.” – Michael Moxam
Grey skies, snow and cold. These are constant features of life during a Canadian winter, and yet they show up fairly infrequently in photographs of architecture.
Mostly, representations of architecture are made during summer or fall, with cheerful blue skies the preferred visual language. Summer pictures do have the advantage of flexibility for a publishing schedule it seems no-one wants a reminder of winter at other times of year.