RENDERINGSPortfolioBy Brendan CormierPrepared: January 2011

Stairspace to HeavenToronto, CanadaDepartment of Unusual CertaintiesSaskatchewan Entertainment CentreRegina, CanadaOffice for UrbanismPreservation HoleChicago, U.S.A.Department of Unusual CertaintiesAlmere Hout NoordAlmere, the NetherlandsMecanoo & West 8SchleussengärtenHamburg, GermanyMecanoo

Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment CentreDate: December 2009Client: City of ReginaStudio: Office for UrbanismView: Looking across pedestrian bridge linking downtown to the new entertainment centre

Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment CentreDate: December 2009Client: City of ReginaStudio: Office for UrbanismView: Looking west down Dewdney with enhance streetscaping proposal- winter scene

Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment CentreDate: December 2009Client: City of ReginaStudio: Office for UrbanismView: Looking west down Dewdney with enhance streetscaping proposal- summer scene

Project: Saskatechewan Entertainment CentreDate: December 2009Client: City of ReginaStudio: Office for UrbanismView: Looking north towards pedestrian bridge, public square and entertainment centre

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: January 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Canal view of typical residential district and housing back lots.

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: January 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Main commercial district and connected waterways.

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: January 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Waterway entrance to Almere Hout Noord and link to central Almere

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: January 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Courtyard housing in the woods with horse stables and horse path

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: January 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Canal view of typical residential district and housing back lots.

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: March 2009Client: IBA HamburgStudio: Mecanoo View: Science park with ponds performing bio-remediation.

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: March 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Schleussengraben with bridge connection between science park and residential district

Project: Almere Hout NoordDate: March 2009Client: YmereStudio: Mecanoo & West 8View: Restored heritage building turned restaurant and greenhouse with locally grown food

Project: StairSpace to HeavenDate: November 2020Client: Downtown ED BIAStudio: Deparment of Unusual CertaintieView: Looking at Southeast corner of John Street and King Street

Project: Preservation HoleDate: November 2020Client: Chicago Architectural ClubStudio: Deparment of Unusual CertaintieView: Looking at the entrance to the new under-ground public institution Preservation Hole

BCCurriculum Vitae

Brendan Cormier

2006-2008 Bauhaus Universität-Weimar, Germany. M.Sc Urban Design2003 summer IFHP Urban Design Summer School, Helsinki, Finland2001-2005 Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. B.Sc Urban and Regional Planning

EMPLOYMENT

2010 - present Co-founder and Urban Designer of Department of Unusual Certainties, Toronto, Canada2010 - present Editor of Pop-Up City2009-2010 Urban Designer at Office for Urbanism, Toronto, Canada2008-2009 Urban Designer at Mecanoo Architecten, Delft, the Netherlands2007 summer Urban Designer at Studio Sputnik, Rotterdam, the Netherlands2006 summer Oral History Interviewer, T.Ode project, City of Toronto, Museum’s Division2005-2006 Sustainable Development Planner, CIDA/CUI and Manchester Parish, Jamaica

EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES

2010 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 Parkettes2009 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.2008 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.2007 The Painted Line in GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto Coach House Books, Toronto, Canada.

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 Magazine2006 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 Etobicoke2005 Island Re:Public Spacing Magazine Issue #6 Searching for the Better Way

AWARDS

2010 Recipient of Artists in the Workplace Grant: Ontario Arts Council2008 Best-of-Show at the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar for “The Airport Show” July 5th2008 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