RENDERINGS Portfolio
By Brendan Cormier
Prepared: January 2011
Stairspace to Heaven Toronto, Canada Department of Unusual Certainties Saskatchewan Entertainment Centre Regina, Canada Office for Urbanism Preservation Hole Chicago, U.S.A. Department of Unusual Certainties Almere Hout Noord Almere, the Netherlands Mecanoo & West 8 Schleusseng채rten Hamburg, Germany Mecanoo
Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment Centre Date: December 2009 Client: City of Regina Studio: Office for Urbanism View: Looking across pedestrian bridge linking downtown to the new entertainment centre
Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment Centre Date: December 2009 Client: City of Regina Studio: Office for Urbanism View: Looking west down Dewdney with enhance streetscaping proposal- winter scene
Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment Centre Date: December 2009 Client: City of Regina Studio: Office for Urbanism View: Looking west down Dewdney with enhance streetscaping proposal- summer scene
Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment Centre Date: December 2009 Client: City of Regina Studio: Office for Urbanism View: Looking north towards pedestrian bridge, public square and entertainment centre
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: January 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Canal view of typical residential district and housing back lots.
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: January 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Main commercial district and connected waterways.
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: January 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Waterway entrance to Almere Hout Noord and link to central Almere
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: January 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Courtyard housing in the woods with horse stables and horse path
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: January 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Canal view of typical residential district and housing back lots.
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: March 2009 Client: IBA Hamburg Studio: Mecanoo View: Science park with ponds performing bioremediation.
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: March 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Schleussengraben with bridge connection between science park and residential district
Project: Almere Hout Noord Date: March 2009 Client: Ymere Studio: Mecanoo & West 8 View: Restored heritage building turned restaurant and greenhouse with locally grown food
Project: StairSpace to Heaven Date: November 2020 Client: Downtown ED BIA Studio: Deparment of Unusual Certaintie View: Looking at Southeast corner of John Street and King Street
Project: Preservation Hole Date: November 2020 Client: Chicago Architectural Club Studio: Deparment of Unusual Certaintie View: Looking at the entrance to the new underground public institution Preservation Hole
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Curriculum Vitae
Brendan Cormier
2006-2008 Bauhaus Universität-Weimar, Germany. M.Sc Urban Design 2003 summer IFHP Urban Design Summer School, Helsinki, Finland 2001-2005 Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. B.Sc Urban and Regional Planning EMPLOYMENT 2010 - present Co-founder and Urban Designer of Department of Unusual Certainties, Toronto, Canada 2010 - present Editor of Pop-Up City 2009-2010 Urban Designer at Office for Urbanism, Toronto, Canada 2008-2009 Urban Designer at Mecanoo Architecten, Delft, the Netherlands 2007 summer Urban Designer at Studio Sputnik, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2006 summer Oral History Interviewer, T.Ode project, City of Toronto, Museum’s Division 2005-2006 Sustainable Development Planner, CIDA/CUI and Manchester Parish, Jamaica EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES 2010 2009 2008 2007
Bee City in D3: PostFact - Visualizing Information (Exhibition), Monterrey, Mexcio Visualization Techniques for Planners, workshop for Masters Planning students, Ryerson University. Bee City Continued, SOILED Magazine, premiere issue Re:Site Magazine, edited and design by DoUC Jury member for FORMCities design competition “Continuous Infrastructures” Lecture at FORMCities Symposium, Jackson, Mississippi Civic Frontiers, On Site Magazine #24 Mayor Time, Spacing Fall 2010 “Piazza San Marco as Seen by Everyone” screened at Istanbul Design Week Vancouverism is Everywhere, Monu Magazine #13 Spectacular Toronto, Spacing Summer 2010 Heroes and Guidelines, Conditions Magazine #3 Anatomy of a Parkette, Onsite Magazine #23 Residency for Storefront Success Stories, Windsor, ON “Piazza San Marco as Seen by Everyone” premiered at Human Cities Festival, Brussels, Belgium Parkdale Film Festival- 3 Parkettes Taking Food to the Streets, in Edible City, Coach House Books Bee City, Spacing Magazine Fall 2009 The Airport Show in Airside meets Landside: Beiträge zur intergrierten Entwicklung des Hauptstadt Airport Public Culture. The Question of Culture and Control. in Music-City. Sports-City. Leisure City. Bauhaus-Univer sität Weimar, Fakultät Architektur Towers, Slides and Voyeurism: Four Cultural Projects for the City of Sheffield in ibid. Designing Urban Qualities: Studio Sputnik and the Kaohsiung Waterfront in Jahrbuch der Modellprojekte: Städ tebauliche Projekte, Stadtplanung und Nachhaltigkeit 2007/2008 Best-of-Show at the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar for “The Airport Show” July 5th Fresh and Cheap: Analysing the Niche of Rotterdam’s Open-Air Markets. Final Thesis for the Europäishce Urbanistik programme, Bauhaus Universität. The Painted Line in GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto Coach House Books, Toronto, Canada.
2006 2005
4 Walks - Toronto film premiere, Bloor Cinema, Toronto 4 Walks - Toronto photography set, Walking Life Exhibit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Going Dutch with Bikes Spacing Magazine Issue #10 Is Toronto Ready to be a Green City? All is Silo on the Waterfront Spacing Magazine Issue #9 Water Loving our Laneways, NOW Magazine Project Laneway State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto Coach House Books, Toronto Public Enemy: Fire Trucks Spacing Magazine Issue #7 What Kind of City do you Want? Toronto as a Canvas The Next American City Issue #11 Measuring Weimar - exhibited at the Made to Measure Show, Arts Etobicoke Island Re:Public Spacing Magazine Issue #6 Searching for the Better Way
AWARDS 2010 Recipient of Artists in the Workplace Grant: Ontario Arts Council 2008 Best-of-Show at the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar for “The Airport Show” July 5th 2008 Phillip Schumacher Award for best “Model Project” Bauhaus Unversität-Weimar. 2006 Recipient of two-year DAAD full academic scholarship to complete a masters degree in Germany. June 2006. 2005 Recipient of Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation scholarship for a two-week study of Swedish satellite town settlements