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Saucier + Perrotte Architects design for the Complexe Sportif Saint-Laurent wins the American Architecture Prize for Recreational Architecture

2017-10-10T17:24:00-04:00

The Complexe Sportif Saint-Laurent in Montreal, designed by Saucier + Perrotte Architects, opened earlier this year and has recently been announced the winner of the American Architecture Prize for Recreational Architecture.

Picture Olivier Blouin courtesy of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

Situated in the Marcel Laurin Park in the Saint Laurent borough, north of the Montreal Island, the building stands between a high school and an arena and hosts various sport and leisure facilities.

Picture Olivier Blouin courtesy of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

Elevation, courtesy of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

Longitudinal section, courtesy of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

The sculptural and dynamic aspect of the dark grey and the see-through white parallelograms make Saucier + Perrotte’s design stand out among the horizontal adjacent building.

Picture Olivier Blouin courtesy of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

The luminous white portion of the building hosts the pool and the palestra and is ...

More of the 2017 American Architecture Award winning projects

2017-04-18T18:07:00-04:00

The American Architecture Awards has been America’s highest public tribute for architecture since its inception in 1994. Co-organized by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the prize is presented to recently built top-notch projects in architecture, landscape, and planning that were either built in the U.S. or abroad by the country's leading designers and planners, like Steven Holl, Renzo Piano, and Olson Kundig, to name a few.

Over 130 projects around the world were awarded in multiple categories. Here are a few of them:

BENJAMIN P. GROGAN AND JERRY L. DOVE FEDERAL BUILDING, Miramar, Florida, 2014.
Architect: Krueck + Sexton Architects. Architect of Record: Gensler.

Photographers: Nick Merrick/Hedrich Blessing.

MIRRORHOUSE, Beverly Hills, California, 2016.
Architect: XTEN Architecture.

Photographer: Art Gray

PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM, Los Angeles, California, 2014.
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Photographer: Raimund Koch.

MICHIGAN LAKE HOUSE, Leelanau County, Michigan, 2016. Architect: Desai Chia Architecture

Photographer: Paul Warchol.

SHINSEGAE INTERNATIONAL, Seoul, South Korea, 2015. Architect: Olson Kundig   .

Photographers: Kevin Sco and Kyungsub Shin.

Find more of the winning projects on Bustler.

L.A.'s Petersen Museum receives 2017 American Architecture Award

2017-04-13T16:58:00-04:00

Despite receiving a substantial drubbing from architectural critics, the Petersen Museum has managed to garner a 2017 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design (among 78 other finalists).

The award, which has been given out since 1994, recognized the new design of the museum for transforming "the Petersen building into one of the most significant and unforgettable structures in Los Angeles." The award panel went on to note that:

Unlike most museum renovations, which involve complete building teardown, this is a repositioning project. To use the metaphor of a car, if the existing building is a car’s chassis, the design is the body. The bones of the structure remain, and the existing concrete portico on Wilshire is removed. The rooftop becomes converted into a party space which can be rented out. A corrugated aluminum rain screen outboard wraps around the building on each of the three street frontages, giving the museum an entirely new l...