The project breathes new life into an abandoned building still in ruin, the Sevyan Cultural Center, built in 1926. A primary objective is to strengthen Armenia's cultural dialogue with the global art scene by providing its cultural capital with an innovative and multidisciplinary school. The site becomes a node of physical and social connection through the urban fabric and between people, across borders and cultures. To maintain a link between old and new, a parametrically designed geometric volume that houses a performance hall for 500 people is inserted inside the preserved stone facade.
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L'Épicentre-Culturel(Laval, CA)
- Architizer A+Awards: Unbuilt Cultural - Finalist, 2025
The Montreal Chest Institute Rehabilitation (Montreal, CA)
- Design Educates Awards: Honorable Mention in Architectural Design, 2025
- IDA Design Awards: Architecture - Silver - Cultural Preservation / Restoration, 2024
- World Architecture Festival : Future Projects - Offices + Re-use, 2024
- DNA Paris Design Awards : Architecture Commercial & Offices - Honorable Mention, 2024
- Global Architecture and Design Awards - Rethinking The Future : Healthcare / Wellness (Concept), 2024
Unity (Montreal, CA)
- LOOP Design Awards, Interior - Offices, Winner, 2023
Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron (Gatineau, CA)
- World Architecture Festival, Completed Buildings - Civic & Community (finalist), 2023
- Prix d'excellence en architecture de l'Ordre des Architectes du Québec, Finalist, 2023
- LOOP Design Awards, Cultural Building, Winner + Public Buildings and Institutional, Honorable Mention, 2022
- IDA Design Awards, Architecture, Silver, Institutional, 2021
- Architecture MasterPrize, Interior Design - Public Spaces, 2021
- DNA Paris Design Awards, Cultural + Public + Civic, 2021
NEUF50
- Communication Arts, Design - Integrated Branding Programs + Books + Self-Promotion, Finalist, 2023
CHUM 2 (Montreal, CA)
- Architecture MasterPrize, Institutional Architecture + Healthcare, 2022
CHUM 1
- International Interior Design Association, Healthcare Interior Design Award, 2018
- The Chicago Athenaeum, International Architecture Award, 2018
- American Architecture Prize: Healthcare, Heritage, 2017
- World Architecture Festival, Display, Health Completed Projects, Old and New Completed Buildings, Finalist, 2017
Fasken (Montreal, CA)
- Architecture MasterPrize, Architectural Design - Renovation & Restoration, Honorable Mention, 2021
- IDA Design Awards, Architecture - Renovation, Honorable Mention, 2021
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