Acclaimed Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier has died aged 63

Summarizing his career for a recent oral history, The Cultural Landscape Foundation President Charles A. Birnbaum said, “Cormier’s design approach is unique in the landscape field — his work pulverizes the notion that history and design can't be happily wed.” Montreal’s Mayor Valérie Plante added that his passing was “an immense loss” for the community.