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Land use planning is transforming our living environments. Our experts dissect the issues raised by current events and share the news and ideas that make us progress together.

2024-09-25

BC2 submits its Memoire on the City of Montreal's PUM 2050 project
2024-09-19

BC2 to host a panel at the 12th World Urban Forum
2024-08-12Actions Durables

A grant for innovative planning and development practices
2024-08-05Articles

Gender-Sensitive Urban Planning

As Montreal Pride celebrations are taking place, BC2 continues to work on the gender-sensitive urban design concept. BC2 has also been selected to participate in the Association des architectes paysagistes du Québec's 2024 symposium, where this topic will be discussed.
2024-02-28Company Culture

A new Associate Partner for BC2
2024-01-16Company Culture

Indigenous community resilience: an unforgettable day at Kahnawà:ke
2023-12-06Réflexions BC2

Embracing Winter, Enjoying the Cold
2023-12-06Réflexions BC2

Nordic urbanism as a field of territorial resilience

While encompassing three seasons that vary from mild to hot, the essence of northern places is most significantly marked by winter. Nordicity, the set of characteristics specific to places intimately linked to the cold, snow, and the short days of winter, significantly influences the daily rhythms and overall lifestyles of those living in northern regions.
2023-11-22Réflexions BC2

Housing of temporary agricultural workers in rural areas amid a housing shortage
2023-10-18Company Culture

A scholarship encouraging indigenous perspectives in landscape architecture
2023-09-06Réflexions BC2

Thoughtful and consensual conversion: the future North American golf courses
2023-08-23Company Culture

Great news for BC2 Inter-Nation Collaboration team
2023-08-17Articles

Is it possible to design cities to be inclusive and non-discriminatory?

During Diversity Month in Montreal, BC2 tackled the concept of inclusive urban design. How we live, work, play, travel and relax is determined by cities and their urban design. Our urban spaces must rise to the challenge and meet a full spectrum of needs, including those of the most vulnerable, including women, young people, gender minorities and people living with disabilities. How can we design cities that are inclusive and free from discrimination to shape the cities of the future?
2023-06-19Réflexions BC2

Temporary Developments for a Resilient City
2023-06-14Company Culture

The NOVA legacy: Supporting youth recreational tourism in Quebec
2023-06-09Articles

Indigenous Perspectives in Land Use Planning

Delve into Indigenous Perspectives in Territorial Planning through an article written by two employees of BC2, Kiana Côté and Patricia Deer. This article explores the practice of urban planning by emphasizing the importance of considering indigenous perspectives on land.
2023-05-17Company Culture

Carole Labrecque appointed Sustainability Manager
2023-05-17Company Culture

Jean-Marc Latreille's Impact
2022-12-21Réflexions BC2

Challenges of territorial resilience
2022-12-09Articles

The Fragile Resilience of the North

Marie-Pierre McDonald and Hilda Snowball present the impact of climate change on northern regions and reflect on what should be done to address it.
2022-11-16Articles

Public spaces: management and governance issues

In a two-voice conference organized by La Pépinière, Jérôme Barth and Jérôme Glad reflected on the contributions of the conservancy's public-private partnership model for the management of our urban public spaces.
Nouveaux associés
2022-11-10Company Culture

Eight new nominations at BC2
Réflexions BC2
2022-09-12Réflexions BC2

Is the shopping centre a model in need of reinvention?
2022-06-20Company Culture

A scholarship for innovative practices in planning spaces
2021-05-04Réflexions BC2

Active mobility and growing popularity of cycling in Quebec
2021-03-12Réflexions BC2

What if health depended on the built environment?

With more than a billion people in lockdown during the pandemic, the impacts of our environments on our physical and mental health have never been as prominent. What is the source of these impacts, what is the role of urban planning and architecture in well-being and how can we limit the impacts of confinement? Overview and best practices.
2020-10-19Company Culture

Planning Spaces
2023-05-17

Company Culture

Jean-Marc Latreille's Impact

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The Jean-Marc Latreille Scholarship recognizes students in landscape architecture for their excellence in the design and development of natural sites. Developed in collaboration by BC2 and the Université de Montréal’s School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, it is dedicated to the landscape architect of the same name who worked for 40 years in this field.

Jean-Marc Latreille is a passionate builder who co-founded a landscape architecture and urban planning firm in 1977 and has participated in numerous environmental sculpture projects. He also taught at the Université de Montréal for several decades, where he was known for his ability to impart his knowledge of site engineering, topometry and site grading.

The Jean-Marc Latreille Scholarship focuses on the criteria that have always been important to Mr. Latreille, including the understanding of the physical and cultural characteristics of the site, the integration of issues related to these characteristics into the design development, the innovative and sustainable approach to the enhancement of these characteristics, as well as the quality of the development proposal and its original design objectives.

For the 2023 edition, the team composed of Félix Maltais, Yasmine Lavoie and Justine Larocque was chosen as the recipient of the award. Their project, Pôle Gadbois, was particularly appreciated for the depth of the analysis of the site, the general coherence of the proposed approach, the innovative nature of the project, as well as the quality of the graphic communication concerning the issues of the site and the solutions presented.

“We are honored to contribute to the recognition of landscape architecture students by offering this scholarship in honor of Jean-Marc Latreille. We are confident that the winners will continue to demonstrate excellence in their field and contribute to the enhancement of our natural environment.” – Isabelle Séguin, Executive Vice President, Associate Partner.

Congratulations to the team for their remarkable work.

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