{"id":65498,"date":"2020-04-09T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=65498"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:30","slug":"carleton-architecture-students-win-vimy-ridge-design-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-architecture-students-win-vimy-ridge-design-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Architecture Students Win Vimy Ridge Design Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Architecture Students Win Vimy Ridge Design Competition\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Three Carleton University architecture students have won a national design competition<\/a> for a water feature at the Vimy Foundation Centennial Park<\/a> in France, commemorating the legacy of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Normand, Kevin Complido and Brendan Dyck are master\u2019s students in the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are honoured to have the fountain selected and are very excited to see it built in such a hallowed space,\u2019\u2019 said Normand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe came up with a rough concept very early and decided to follow through with it over the Christmas break. Our team is made up of three University of Manitoba graduates who all ended up together at Carleton for the master\u2019s program. We were all familiar with each other\u2019s style and work ethic and we all understood the gravity of a project like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battle\u2019s anniversary is April 9 and is known as a turning point<\/a> in Canadian history, where four Canadian divisions fought together for the first time. More than 10,000 were killed and wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students intended their project to be tranquil and thought-provoking, and to reinforce the dialogue of peace and remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned by the Vimy Foundation<\/a> and the Love Family Foundation, the water feature will be a central element in Vimy Foundation Centennial Park initially designed by Ottawa landscape architect Linda Dicaire. The park, which opened in 2018, complements the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, where visitors gather to reflect upon the legacy of those who served in the First World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled The Ridge: To Venerate A Buried History, <\/em>the low circular fountain is to be installed at the heart of the park this summer and unveiled in the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat made The Ridge<\/em> stand out from other designs was its use of echo chambers and agitators below the surface which reverberate the sound of flowing water to create a contemplative environment in the park,\u201d said selection committee members Jon and Nancy Love.\u201cI\u2019m delighted to have a team from our school win this opportunity,\u201d said Azrieli Director Jill Stoner. \u201cTheir design reflects the visceral power of water to embody elemental connections between memory and landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Student Design Competition was open to all 2019 fourth-year undergraduate and graduate students in Canadian universities studying architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design and fine arts. It attracted six complete entries from four universities, which were adjudicated in a two-step jury process. The prize includes $5,000.The Love Family Foundation, of Toronto, is funding the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second team from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism was shortlisted for a project titled Peace Through Reflection<\/em>. The team includes Luke McElcheran, Felix Mayer Michelle Duong and Vedad Haghighi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nCarleton University
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Three Carleton University architecture students have won a national design competition for a water feature at the Vimy Foundation Centennial Park in France, commemorating the legacy of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Scott Normand, Kevin Complido and Brendan Dyck are master\u2019s students in the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. \u201cWe are honoured to have the fountain selected and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":65499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,88,131],"class_list":["post-65498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-azrieli-school-of-architecture-and-urbanism","tag-awards","tag-graduate-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65501,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498\/revisions\/65501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}