Réappropriation et revalorisation du littoral du Saint-Laurent à Québec - Phase 4 / Reclaiming and Enhancing the St. Lawrence Shoreline in Quebec City - Phase 4
2023
Québec City, Quebec, Canada- Landscaping
- Territory
- District
The CCNQ is organizing an international ideas competition with the aim of imagining the deployment of the full potential of the Littoral Est project: reappropriation and enhancement of the St. Lawrence River shoreline in Quebec City - Phase 4, extending over 8 km between the D'Estimauville sector and Parc de la Chute Montmorency. The CCNQ's public development projects, including the three phases of the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain, bear witness to the public's great appreciation for the excellence of its land-use planning and the development of the Capitale-Nationale region. The Littoral Est project thus represents a unique opportunity to extend this appreciation to a new urban development project combining four main areas of intervention:
A. Coastal enhancement and accessibility
B. Connecting neighboring districts to the river
C. (Re)questioning the transit axis in its current layout
D. Conservation and enhancement of natural environments
This international ideas competition is intended as an investment in creativity, and aims to select, through the comparison of innovative proposals, the winning concepts from multi-disciplinary teams that will have been put together for the competition. The aim is to highlight the development potential of the area in question, generate stimulating ideas and concepts, and influence the strategies and decisions of the stakeholders called upon to implement them. At the same time, it aims to put current issues into perspective and speculate on future ones. The proposals will lead to an update of the overall vision, as well as for each of the sectors, by integrating the worrying challenges raised and highlighted in the competition. They will enable the Quebec government to implement the best ideas and identify the conditions for successful future development. The competition is open, multidisciplinary, international in scope and held in a single phase. It is open to landscape architects, urban designers, architects, urban planners and other environmental design professionals likely to propose ideas that are both ambitious and realistic, and that will guide the transformation and conservation of the territory, and the reappropriation of riverbanks and the areas that border them, whether natural or urbanized.
(From competition program)
(Unofficial automated translation)
A. Coastal enhancement and accessibility
B. Connecting neighboring districts to the river
C. (Re)questioning the transit axis in its current layout
D. Conservation and enhancement of natural environments
This international ideas competition is intended as an investment in creativity, and aims to select, through the comparison of innovative proposals, the winning concepts from multi-disciplinary teams that will have been put together for the competition. The aim is to highlight the development potential of the area in question, generate stimulating ideas and concepts, and influence the strategies and decisions of the stakeholders called upon to implement them. At the same time, it aims to put current issues into perspective and speculate on future ones. The proposals will lead to an update of the overall vision, as well as for each of the sectors, by integrating the worrying challenges raised and highlighted in the competition. They will enable the Quebec government to implement the best ideas and identify the conditions for successful future development. The competition is open, multidisciplinary, international in scope and held in a single phase. It is open to landscape architects, urban designers, architects, urban planners and other environmental design professionals likely to propose ideas that are both ambitious and realistic, and that will guide the transformation and conservation of the territory, and the reappropriation of riverbanks and the areas that border them, whether natural or urbanized.
(From competition program)
(Unofficial automated translation)