CÔTÉ
LEAHY CARDAS architects is a leading architectural firm which has contributed
to the restoration and the urban renewal of
Québec city ; some of their projects have won awards from the City and
the Québec architecture association.
In
the past 5 years CÔTÉ LEAHY CARDAS architectes has worked on hotels, cultural
and heritage projects, sports resorts, shopping malls, residential and
industrial projects.
Last
year we were finalists for the CESM Soccer Complex competition
(http://mtlunescodesign.com/fr/projet/Concours-darchitecture-Complexe-de-soccer-au-CESM/2)
and we won the urban art competition "Saint-Roch
Technoculture" (with the artist Andre Du Bois) ; in May 2009 CÔTÉ LEAHY
CARDAS architects was chosen laureate of the «Paysages suspendus» national
competition which is about the urban rehabilitation of four raised segments of
an autoroute above the lower town of Québec City.
Values:
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Preserve our past and construct our present in order
to transmit a strong and sustainable heritage, where every period expresses and
assumes itself with pride.
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Harmonize the formal aesthetical qualities with those
of space in respect with the environment’s needs.
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Create, always urge on further reflection, question
and ask questions, leave the comfort zone, open possibilities.