Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, October 16, 2025 : Provencher Roy, a Canadian (Québec) architectural firm (#2393)

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Artist of the Day, October 16, 2025 : Provencher Roy, a Canadian (Québec) architectural firm (#2393)

Provencher_Roy is an award-winning Canadian architectural firm recognized for its excellence in quality, conception, and execution.

Through an organizational model consisting of human-scale studios, the various teams are given free rein in terms of creativity, exchanges, and analytical approach, in an environment that always prioritizes the best ideas. Firmly rooted in a unified studio concept, the emerging team at Provencher_Roy continues to share the initial vision of its founders – that of always ensuring to engage in responsible interventions, in favour of the development of experience-enriching spaces and collective well-being.

In 1983, Claude Provencher and Michel Roy founded the Provencher_Roy firm.

The World Trade Centre Montréal project served to establish the firm at the beginning of the 1990s. This transformation of an abandoned city block in Montréal’s historic sector breathed new life into the neighbourhood, in addition to reweaving Old Montréal with the downtown core.

In the following years, Provencher_Roy welcomed new partners and made acquisitions to bring together complementary multidisciplinary services in architecture, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, and sustainable development (Moureaux Hauspy, Beauchamp Bourbeau, Archifin, Birtz Bastien Beaudoin Laforest architectes). Cultivating business relationships that started several years ago, this shift ensures the evolution and longevity of the firm, while shaping the next generation of dynamic and competent professionals.

Claude Provencher and Michel Roy met in 1974 while working at Papineau Gérin-Lajoie Le Blanc, a Montréal-based architecture firm. They founded their own practice in 1983: Provencher Roy + Associés Architectes. Line Belhumeur and Alain Compéra were appointed as partners in the firm as work began on the Montréal World Trade Center in 1992: a revitalization project that would both breathe new life into the city’s historic centre and establish the firm’s reputation. In 2005, Provencher_Roy acquired Beauchamp Bourbeau, a firm specializing in sustainable development. Claude Bourbeau, the firm’s principal, joined Provencher_Roy as an additional partner.[7] In the same year, Provencher_Roy also bought a 50% stake in the interior design company Moureaux Hauspy et Associés Designers.[8] The practice has continued its gradual growth since then, becoming a provider of multidisciplinary but complementary architectural services, including interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, industrial design and sustainable development.

As of March 2022, the firm has appointed a total of thirty-three partners and become a predominately women-led design group.
Claude Provencher passed away in 2022.

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