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Public Art Competition with Concordia for Legado in collaboration with

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Context Legado is an urban redevelopment project of 27 000 m² in Montreal’s hottest new neighborhood of Griffintown and is

centered between Old Montreal and the hustle of downtown. Legado plays on the history of Griffintown being a hub of

Innovation, as so many inventions and businesses in the early days of Montreal were created in its boundaries. We have

taken best practices of urban planning, and built a building project where citizen design is primordial. We propose to build

a vertical city that is inclusive, sustainable, inspiring, cross-generational and a proto-typing zone for a human scale city that

welcomes local residents, small and large business, community groups and universities to live, play, work, and learn

together. Legado will take a mixed development to the next level or integrating uses to play off each other to be the best

of all worlds together.

In collaboration with the Quartier Innovation and its partner Universities of Concordia, McGill, and ETS, we seek to include

cross faculty pollination of the best new ideas of students to give opportunities to take research and study to the testing

ground and market with direct access. Legado incorporates the 4 pillars of the QI to be a catalyst for job creation, and

cross- sectorial collaboration the common rules of real estate. With the principles of “Yield Development”, we seek to

redefine projects based on triple bottom line paradigms. All phases will be integrated not only to each other, but to the

community that surrounds it. It is a call to action, a challenge to build differently and a question, “If we could build

anything, what would we build?”.

The aim of the Legado project is to set a new standard for

development, architecture, place making and community building

for Montreal. It does this through an innovative strategy that merges

socio-cultural, economic, and sustainable environmental principles

that will serve as capacity building for Griffintown. Legado’s role is

to act as a catalyst and condenser of sustainable and resilient

development in Montreal, integrating innovative best practices to

re-define the role that real estate can play in city-building. Legado’s

built form will serve to encourage and create interaction and

exchange, while applying rigorous building performance standards,

such as achieving an ambitious Net-Zero Energy strategy. Through

conscious and inclusive planning, provision of much needed services,

and innovative design, Legado will create a central core in the

neighborhood, creating complete livability at the human scale.

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What’s in a Name?

The name Legado means “legacy” in Spanish. Why did we choose it? We wish to create a new prototype for urban

development projects that call to be inspired by our common history, celebrate inclusivity, and build for our future

generations. It was selected in Spanish as an ode to the fact that the world is and should continue to celebrate our

interconnectivity between communities and between nations. Can we, together, build our history of tomorrow?

The Challenge: Art Inspired by the City Whether it be Impact Internships with McGill University, hosting ÉTS’ summer school on urban agriculture or conducting

research with Concordia, GI Quo Vadis has set a precedent for collaboration between the private sector and universities. As

GI Quo Vadis’s next project, Legado will challenge artists, engineers, architects and urban planners to break through the

lines that define traditional project modeling. On the site of Legado’s game changing, mixed-used development, there are

three placeholders that have been reserved as people-gathering plces that will tell the story of the project’s purpose to

build a human centric, inclusive and innovative development that

values the area’s history and seeks collaboration to build our common

future. Inspired by Jan Gehl’s work in his book Life Between Buildings,

our goal is to showcase art and creativity linked to sustainability and

resiliency of the City. We will together be creating a walkable and

livable city that seeks to integrate the area around it by highlighting

its public space. The public space will be a public promenade that has

as a goal to tell the stories and inspire people to think differently.

As an homage to these educational, artistic and innovative

components of Legado, GI Quo Vadis is will build three unique,

hallmark public art structures. We are launching a competition in

collaboration with Concordia’s Faculty of Arts, where the winner will

be featured to build the art piece that they have designed. We are

making a call to all the creative minds at Concordia that are interested

in taking public art to the next level. Does city building inspire you? What are your ideas of what public space could be like

to connect people sharing common value systems? If we could build the city of the future, what would be your part?

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Your Public Art Design

To design a public art permanent structure that will value the history of innovation in Griffintown, and plays it forward to

collective creativity to inspire people to dream of the possible. We wish for you to take the goals and aspirations of

Legado, and share your own dreams with us. We wish for your art piece to inspire people to live their lives better, together.

The piece designed by Concordia University students will be situated on the western side of Legado’s site, at the corner of

Guy and William streets (Annex A). This round turning point and public space will be the focus point and central entry way

to Legado 1. Its unique connectivity to the Canal, the historical intersection of past innovations and the link to Guy street

to lead to Concordia University downtown campus will allow teams to let their creativity run free.

We challenge teams of Concordia Art Students to work together along the following guidelines to design their public art

structure.

1. The design must be inspired by the characteristics of the game of Jenga, a long-time

inspiration for Legado’s for its interlocking, transformable qualities. Conceiving

Legado through the inspiration of the game Jenga was part of the initial steps of

viewing the project’s various systems as moveable, stackable and interchangeable

between place, time, and function. It is a different way of cultivating architecture

that has visually interesting, intriguing quality and stimulates the “possible”. The

Jenga inspiration transcends just its concept of building blocks, but also is an

interesting study of “negative space”- the space between the blocks. We challenge

you to dream about the space between buildings, the space between us as individuals, the space between faculties.

We wish for your public art space to be the focal point at the main entrance of public space in Legado 1 to be an

invitation to the community at large to come and see the way urban planning and project development should be

done.

2. The materials used in the construction of this monument should be inspired by the concept of zero waste and cradle

to cradle development. Therefore, we wish the art structure to pull materials from the buildings currently on site

that will be demolished. It should show old materials often used in traditional building and inspire new ways to use

materials of the past and incorporate materials “of the future”- in sustainable terms.

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3. Participants have the opportunity should they wish to meet with the development team of GI Quo Vadis, citizens,

architects, public planners, artists, and more, in order to gain the insight and knowledge needed to conceive their

submission.

4. The submission must be a collaborative piece, the product of team work, and must include:

a. PDF files of proposed design ad well as printed plans and sketches

b. Outline of materials used in the design, including realistic cost projections for building the art piece

c. Presentation of the project, including a statement of intention, sources of inspiration, the purpose of the

art piece and a description of what the art piece represents to them and what they wish to showcase to

the community.

d. Biographies of the team members (250 words max)

5. Participants will have four months from the date of the competition’s launch to submit their proposal by sending

materials to 5524 St Patrick, suite 316, Montreal, Quebec H4E 1A8 attention Natalie Voland. You may also send

your questions to n.voland@lofts-mtl.com with the subject heading Concordia Public Art at Legado.

6. Three finalists will be chosen, and will be granted three additional months to clarify, adapt and solidify their

project proposal based on comments and suggestions from the expert panel that will be resubmitted to them.

7. The winning group will have the opportunity to work with the developing team, establish a timeline and bring

their design to life as a permanent installation, with the description of the artists and the project highlighted.

During the building and design process there will be an opportunity to film the development of the art piece, and

its construction will be honored with the inauguration press conference and official launch.

The Judges Natalie Voland- President, Gestion Immobiliere Quo Vadis

Vanessa Mueggler- Projects Lead, Gestion Immobiliere Quo Vadis

Paul Simard- Hot Shot Connector, Concordia University

Another Art Faculty of Concordia University

Josee Noiseux- General Manager for Advancement & Partnerships, New Cities Foundation Patty Xenos-Owner of Patty Xenos Design

Damien Siles- Director General of the Quartier Innovation

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Conclusion- The development team of Legado will undertake to mass the fund needed for the building of the structure.

The winning team will get a prize of $5,000 and will be permanently credited with their design by a ceremonial plaque on

the structure. The team will also benefit from working with the development team and the associated media coverage of

the structure inauguration. A feature of the work will also be on the website of Legado. A video associated to the making

of will be produced and used as a promotional tool to inspire others to value art in development projects. The winning

team will also be featured in a workshop discussing their process and the importance in public art at the Salon 1861 that

will be open to thought leaders, universities, non profits, small and large business leaders and local citizens.

Annex A The Site and Flow Through of Public Space Layout- Connections to the City

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Site Map and Location of Concordia Public Art Sculpture