What the jury said: “This space is part green and part hard, which means during the course of a year it can have many different lives. Daoust Lestage has built an environment out of the whole cloth, and we should all be doing a lot more of that.” – Ken Smith, Ken Smith Workshop

Location: Montreal, Quebec
Firm: Daoust Lestage, Montreal
Team: Reál Lestage with Caroline Beaulieu, Lucie Bibeau, Renée Daoust, Marie-Josée Gagnon, Marie-Pier Marchand, François Ménard, Stéphane Savoie, Eveline Simard, Catherine St-Marseille and Nathalie Trudel