Montreal Port Authority’s Grand Quay among six Prix AIVP Antoine Rufenacht finalists

The Grand Quay at the Port of Montreal is among the six candidate projects – and only North American initiative – selected as finalists for the inaugural Worldwide Network of Port Cities (AIVP) Antoine Rufenacht Award.

Announced at last November’s World Conference Cities and Ports, the prize is designed to honour a world port city that has completed an outstanding development project within the past three years. Name after the AIVP’s founding chair, the prize was instituted in recognition of the need for port cities to adopt sustainable development approaches to improve their relationship with citizenry and to adapt to climate change.

The Grand Quay, located on the site of the earliest harbour activities in Montreal, involved extensively renovating the Iberville Passenger Terminal from a previously shutdown area into a user-friendly urban space that integrates with Old Montreal’s bustling pedestrian district. The new area welcomes ships and passengers, while providing green spaces, an extensively vegetated terrace where visitors can observe ships, a grassy lawn along the St. Lawrence riverbank, as well as a spectacular observation tower.

Each of the finalists will be further interviewed by the prize’s esteemed panel of port and urban design/planning experts. The winner will be announced at the AIVP World Conference in Lisbon in late November.

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