MUHC: Campus Glen - 12 étages (2015)

[jesseps]

What happened to the idea of Moshe Safdie designing the MUHC?

 

Moshe Safdie, the world-renowned architect behind Montreal's Habitat 67, has been squeezed out of drawing up the master plan for the future hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, The Gazette has learned.

 

The MUHC announced with great fanfare in November 2006 that it had hired Safdie to design the hospital to be built on the site of the former Glen railway yard in the city's west end.

 

Arthur Porter, executive director of the MUHC, declared that Safdie was the ideal architect for the project. "Mr. Safdie's soft-spoken manner and philosophy convinced me that the healing environment which will be created on the MUHC's Glen Campus will indeed shape the face of health care in the 21st century," Porter said at the time.

 

Yesterday, however, Safdie's name was conspicuously absent from an MUHC press release announcing that the "design phase is under way" for the billion-dollar hospital.

 

The MUHC has retained four Quebec firms to be the master architectural team for the construction of the hospital on the Glen site as well as the expansion of the Montreal General Hospital.

 

Safdie and the U.S. architectural firm Perkins + Will had been hired by the MUHC before the provincial government decided that the project should be built as a public-private partnership, or P3.

 

Two international consortia are bidding to design and build the Glen project, then maintain it for 34 years. Neither consortium includes Safdie or Perkins + Will, but they each do have prominent architectural firms.

 

Yanaï Elbaz, MUHC associate director of redevelopment, said yesterday that Safdie will no longer draw up the master plan for the hospital. He added that it's not clear yet what role, if any, Safdie will play.

 

Given that the MUHC has four Quebec firms involved and the winning consortium will have its own architects, Elbaz suggested that keeping Safdie as well as Perkins + Will might be redundant.

 

"Is it really necessary to have a Safdie and a Perkins + Will? No, to the extent that we were planning at the beginning, because of the fact that we are now doing a P3," Elbaz said.

 

"These firms - we are going to rediscuss their mandates with them."

 

Safdie, who keeps offices near Boston and in Israel, could not be reached for comment yesterday. But in an interview with The Gazette this year, he said he was unclear what his role would be in the MUHC hospital.

 

The four Quebec architectural firms chosen are Lemay et associés, Jodoin Lamarre Pratte et associés architectes, André Ibghy Architectes and Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux.

 

The firms will devise the "output specifications" of the hospital, including the final number of patient rooms, operating rooms, elevators - even the changes in fresh air per hour.

 

Elbaz said it was necessary to hire its own architects to make sure the MUHC's interests are reflected in the hospital design.

 

"We're building a huge project and we don't want the P3 team cutting corners in some places," he added. "We want to be sure that there are professionals that will be there to challenge" the consortium's architects.

 

The total cost of the Glen hospital and Montreal

 

General redevelopment is $1.579 billion. The winning consortium will be announced by the end of next year and construction is set to begin in the spring of 2009.

 

(Courtesy of The Montreal Gazette)

Modifié 8 mars 2011 par jesseps

[MtlMan]

Ils doivent s'en mordre les doigts, après avoir vu le design du CHUM....

[Zwi]

Article on the cranes at the MUHC site:

 

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Crane+operators+reach/4399194/story.html

 

Three more of these metallic behemoths will soon join them, bringing the total number of tower cranes on the site to 10 – the most ever on a single project in Quebec.

 

 

I'm too young, but I thought for sure the Olympic Stadium would have had more than 10 cranes at one moment..

 

 

En effet, il y en avait près d'une centaine à un certain moment.

 

http://www.stadeolympiquemontreal.ca/les-grues-une-escroquerie.aspx

Modifié 9 mars 2011 par Zwi

[montréaliste]

Ouais, je em souviens bien de la construction du stade. J'allais à l'école à Rosemont et la rue Sherbrooke a été fermée à la circulation pendant au moins 3 ans entre Viau et Pie-IX. Il y en avait une centaine, c'est sûr.

[MTLskyline]

Moshe Safdie, the world-renowned architect behind Montreal's Habitat 67, has been squeezed out of drawing up the master plan for the future hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, The Gazette has learned.

No! I was sure that the splendid architecture was the work of Safdie!

 

Mind you, Perkins + Will has done some nice hospitals: http://www.perkinswill.com/work/healthcare.html

[mtlrdp]

you can watch the progress on webcams

 

http://muhc.ca/homepage/muhc-webcams

[cjb]

Je ne crois pas que le design blanc et cubique soit le vrai design.

 

Je pense qu'on va être surpris et que ce sera beaucoup plus moderne au bout du compte.

 

Cela serait inconcevable de construire quelque chose d'aussi laid !!

[montréaliste]

Complètement d'accord cjb, j'espère que tu as raison. Dans la version qu'on voit, ça ressemble sérieusement au centre de tri de Poste Canada qui a été démoli à Griffintown.

[jesseps]

No! I was sure that the splendid architecture was the work of Safdie!

 

Mind you, Perkins + Will has done some nice hospitals: http://www.perkinswill.com/work/healthcare.html

 

Those are some nice hospitals.

[Chris1989]

8th crane is going up today!