MUHC: Campus Glen - 12 étages (2015)

[MartinMtl]

Architect Safdie won't be drawing up master plan

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AARON DERFEL

The Gazette

 

 

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

 

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.

[Ornello Mastrocola]

...now, if we can only get the provincial government to smarten up and pay our doctors and nurses their just dues and not have them go U.S. bound.

[mtlurb]

off topic?

[MTLskyline]

 

The MUHC takes an important step in the redevelopment of the Mountain Campus

 

January 22, 2008

 

The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) took an important step today with the submission of a new preliminary design to the Ville-Marie borough for the development of the Montreal General Hospital. The MUHC is pleased with the borough’s positive response after working for many years with the borough and the city of Montreal.

 

“Indeed, this new design is the result of close collaboration with the internal MUHC community as well as municipal authorities, local organizations, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux,” explained Dr. Arthur T. Porter, Director General and CEO of the MUHC. “Our goal was to create a design that meets both government and community needs and that allows us to continue to provide our patients with high-quality health care.”

 

The Mountain Campus will comprise the modernized facilities of the Montreal General Hospital, new care units with single-patient rooms, an expansion onto Pine Avenue that will house activities of the Montreal Neurological Hospital, and new space for the emergency department that will be created from the Hospital’s West courtyard.

 

The new design will ensure improved integration with the urban environment for the hospital while preserving the view of Mount Royal. The hospital’s expansion onto Pine Avenue also supports the MUHC’s mission as a tertiary trauma centre and will ensure a suitable link with the downtown area. The project meets all clinical objectives that will guarantee both the excellence of the hospital activities at the Mountain Campus.

 

In terms of the MUHC’s sustainable environmental development policy, this plan aims for the highest standards in the industry, including a LEED Silver certification.

 

In the coming weeks, the MUHC will introduce this design to various city and governmental committees. The borough council and the city council will then take over and vote on a proposed by-law. Finally, the project will be presented to the public in the spring through the Office de consultation publique before a by-law can be passed at the beginning of autumn.

About the MUHC Redevelopment Project

Guided by its mission and its role as the nerve centre of the McGill integrated university hospital network, the MUHC is carrying out a $1.579-billion Redevelopment Project that will help the Government achieve its vision for academic medicine in Quebec. Excellence in patient care, research, education and technology assessment will be fostered on two state-of-art campuses—The Mountain and the Glen—and through strong relationships with healthcare partners. Each LEED®-registered campus will be designed to provide patients and their families with “The Best Care For Life” in a healing environment that is anchored in best sustainable development practices, including BOMA Go Green guidelines. http://www.muhc.ca/construction'>http://www.muhc.ca/construction

About the McGill University Health Centre

The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is a comprehensive academic health institution with an international reputation for excellence in clinical programs, research and teaching. The MUHC is a merger of five teaching hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University — the Montreal Children's, Montreal General, Royal Victoria, and Montreal Neurological hospitals, as well as the Montreal Chest Institute. Building on the tradition of medical leadership of the founding hospitals, the goal of the MUHC is to provide patient care based on the most advanced knowledge in the health care field, and to contribute to the development of new knowledge. http://www.muhc.ca

 

Contact:

Julie Paquet

Information Officer (MUHC Redevelopment Project)

514 934-1934 Ext. 71684

 

Source: http://www.muhc.ca/media/news/?ItemID=28723

[jesseps]

Build the damn thing already.

[francely57]

"the damn thing", January 29, 2008

 

 

...lots of action as always, with Nuns' skyline in the background.

[Hercule]

LE PROJET DU CUSM VA DE L'AVANT

 

 

 

Montréal, le 29 février 2008 – Moins de cinquante jours après son dépôt par les promoteurs, l'arrondissement de Ville-Marie a donné le feu vert à un projet d'envergure pour le Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM), lors d'une séance spéciale du conseil d'arrondissement, tenue ce matin à 10 heures.

 

Ce dossier de développement urbain a été traité avec toute la diligence et l'empressement que souhaite pour les projets, le maire de l'arrondissement Monsieur Benoit Labonté.

 

Rappelons qu'au mois d'octobre 2007, lors d'une allocution devant l'Association des propriétaires d'immeubles du Québec (BOMA Québec), le maire avait déclaré : « Depuis deux ans, l'arrondissement de Ville-Marie a institué une procédure de fast-track, afin de faciliter les démarches et économiser du temps aux entrepreneurs. Ainsi, nous avons déjà diminué de près de 50% le temps de traitement des projets qui nécessitent une décision du conseil d'arrondissement, et de plus de 70%, le temps requis pour les projets qui ne nécessitent qu'une décision administrative».

 

Le Comité consultatif d'urbanisme de l'arrondissement ainsi que le Conseil du Patrimoine et le comité d'architecture et d'urbanisme de la Ville, avaient aussi émis un avis favorable au projet. Ils reconnaissaient l'opportunité exceptionnelle que constitue ce projet pour le secteur Ouest du centre-ville.

 

La séance régulière du conseil pour le mois de mars, aura lieu le mardi 4 mars, au Marché Bonsecours, à 19 heures.

[yarabundi]

Ce dossier de développement urbain a été traité avec toute la diligence et l'empressement que souhaite pour les projets le maire de l'arrondissement...

On doit pas vivre sur la même planète : sur la sienne, la mémoire n'existe pas et la notion de temps n'est pas la même non plus. Peut-être que les mots n'ont pas non plus la même signification.

[Habsfan]

Bravo pour le CUSM, si seulement ils pouvaient se déniaiser au CHUM, ce serait la perfection!

[mtlurb]

 

 

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