Claude Cormier Projects: Dorchester Square, Montréal, Québec, Canada [2 of 10] 

To accommodate myriad physical and programmatic challenges, Cormier addressed the design of the historic park by deploying unexpected solutions that included grading that was inspired by the nineteenth-century French engineer Adolphe Alphand’s approach to Parisian parks, while also incorporating a Victorian-style fountain, bridges inspired by those in Venice, and a humorous, defiant gesture that makes the design unique and visually powerful.