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Saint-Mark's Coptic Canadian Village / Village copte canadien de Saint-Mark

Stage 1

Robert Levit Studio (Second Prize)

CDP/TWC (Second Prize)

Hariri & Hariri - Architecture (Third Prize)

Burckhardt + Partner AG (Third Prize)

Ivan Saleff Architect (Honourable mention)

Brian Ambroziak (Honourable mention)

Stefan Davidovici / i&sd architecture+design (Honourable mention)

R + U Architecture (Honourable mention)

Town Planning Design & Architecture - Witkowski (Honourable mention)

Architects Alliance (Honourable mention)

Ann Beha Architects (Honourable mention)

Helix Architecture (Honourable mention)

Edward Mitchell Architects

x-architekten

Marshall Strabala AIA

Felix Cevela Architect

Golemon Bolullo, Architects

AMGAD GUIRGUIS

Archform

Tomas Lundberg Arkitektkontor

Dimitri Papatheodorou, Architect

Ashvin Karvat Architect

von de Pahlen / von Matt

Julian Jacobs Architects

Stephen Mann Architect

Victor Lam Architect

Ashraf Botros et. AI (Group of architects)

Miguel Escobar, Architect

A Better Design / E. Phillip McCormick AIA, NCARB, NJPP

Apsis Arkitektbyra

Trope Design Research Limited

Perry Meredith Sample

Peter Anthony Berman, Architect and Planner

ARCHITEKT Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang WAREKA

The Kirkland Partnership

Kazuhiro Ishii Architect & Associates

Fumio Toki Associates

Adel El Menchawy

Caroline Ibrahim

Motaleb architects Abdullah + Hering-Motaleb

AGC Design Ltd.

La Vie Brillante

Propylaea Architecture Atelier

LLM International Inc.

Gerald Sullivan Architect

Iñiguez, Ustarroz, Viar, Architects

CNC Architect

Jackson Ryder Architects Inc.

HS Inc.

Unto Kihlanki

Studio di Architettura arch. Grassi Marco

VIA Concepts, LLC

Trinity Project Management

Stein Halvorsen AS Sivilarkitekter MNAL

Paul Laurendeau Architect

PASIO Planning, Architectural, Structural Integrated-design Office

KATIB-IL

BROISSIN Y HERNANDEZ DE LA GARZA

ARCADD, Inc.

Pitropov Architect

Douglas Muir Architect

Ihsan Duygulu

John Murray Architectural Associates

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	2003
Location	Markham, Ontario, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	64

Surface area (m²)	48967 m²
Price by stage	First prize : 60 000$ Second prize : 35 000$ third prize : 25 000$

Client	St. Mark's Coptic Othodox Church
Professional advisor	Roger du Toit
Doc. level	50%

Description

The Coptic community has survived since its origins in Egypt in mid first Century AD. The Copts are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians with a history dated back to the times of the Pharaohs. They were converted to Christianity by St. Mark the apostle and played a prominent role in the formation of the early Christian doctrine. In Canada, the Coptic community is flourishing and now there are more than 160,000 parishioners in some 10 congregations in the Greater Toronto Area.

St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church, Toronto, is the first Coptic Church in North America, and is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

To meet the increasing needs of its congregation, the majority of which live in The Town of Markham, a site in a strategic location in Markham was chosen comprising 12.1 acres at Steeles Avenue and Ferrier Street for an ambitious multimillion dollar undertaking.

The Project is the subject of an International Design Competition and includes a Cathedral, a Community Centre, an Academic School, Daycare, Seniors Apartments, a Bishop's Residence, a Retirement and Nursing Home and an Office Building. World-renowned Urban Planners, Architects and Landscape Architects from 26 countries have registered to submit master-plan proposals for the St. Mark's Coptic Canadian Village resulting in 63 Submissions.

Three winning plans will be chosen and the design teams will receive their awards as follows: First prize is $60,000, second is $35,000 and third is $25,000.

The Advisor to the Competition is one of Canada's premier Urban Designers, the Toronto based Roger du Toit, Architect, Planer and Landscape Architect, CM, FCSLA, FASLA, BCSLA. "The concept has ignited the design profession's imagination," said du Toit. "It is a rare opportunity to plan a project of interrelated community and religious buildings and outdoor spaces around a Cathedral. We are going back to the roots of religious building, seeing the church as the center of the community."

The Complex of religious and community facilities will be a place where Egyptian-Coptic Architecture is reborn in 21st Century expression. The Project is to be a composition of state-of-the-art designs that form harmonious interrelated buildings. The Cathedral will be the centerpiece and a landmark at the entrances of the Town of Markham and the City of Toronto.

The vision includes spaces of peace, serenity, beauty, a symphony of shape, texture and colour expressing the religious concepts of the Christian Coptic Orthodox faith, tradition and spiritual values. The congregation hopes the Cathedral will embody a sublime expression of their faith, traditions and spiritual values in a contemporary architectural vocabulary.

(From competition program)

Jury comments

Allocation of Prizes

The competition's Program Notes covered a lot of ground, without establishing separate mandatory vs. non-mandatory requirements. The Jury, therefore, had both the ability and responsibility to balance the pros and cons of the various submissions' master planning, architectural, religious and programmatic merits. There were schemes with great architectural merit, and/or excellent master plan arrangements, and/or which provided all of the program components, and/or with imaginative interpretations of the symbolic challenge of an "Egyptian-Coptic Architecture reborn in 21st Century expression". However, the jury did not find one which met all four to a sufficiently high standard to warrant a 1st prize. Two 2nd prizes and two 3rd prizes were identified. The cash amounts were confirmed as those set in the Brief for each category, i.e., $35,000 for the 2nd prize and $25,000 for the 3rd prize. These add up to the total prize money of $120,000 originally envisioned.

(From jury report)

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	George Baird, Architecte
	Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Architecte de paysage
	Marcos Marcos
	Mofeed Michael
	Larry Wayne Richards, Architecte

Calendar

March 2003 - Competition announcement
March 5, 2003 - Documents posted on website
April 25, 2003 - Close registration
April 30, 2003 - Questions close
May 15, 2003 - Answers posted
June 30, 2003 - Submission Deadline
July 15, 2003 - Jury meets approximately
July 31, 2003 - Jury report complete approximately
August 15, 2003 - Prize payments approximately
Publish results in the Architectural Record September issue

(From competition's documentation)

Press Review

International Competition for Master Plan for Saint Mark's Coptic Canadian Village, Canadian Architect, 2003

Coptic Christian Village for Markham, Ontario

If you build it..., Canadian Architect

Ferenc, Leslie, 'Now I feel a little closer to God' - Pope Shenouda lays foundation for Coptic village in Markham, The Toronto Star, 2002

Lorinc, John, Devising a blueprint for faith : Coptic Church expansion, National Post, 2003

St. Mark's Coptic Christian Canadian Village, Concept, 2003

List of general documents

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Programme
Documentation
Résumé
Questions et réponses
Questions et réponses
Budget
Documentation
Article de presse
Documentation
Article de presse
Rapport du jury (global)
Documentation
Article de presse
Article de presse
Article de presse

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