Claude Cormier, a celebrated Canadian landscape architect who helped design some of Montreal and Toronto's best-known public spaces, has died at 63.
His firm, Claude Cormier + Associes, said Cormier died Friday in Montreal following complications from Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, a rare genetic condition that predisposes carriers to multiple cancers.
“His ability to design public spaces with broad public appeal stemmed from multiple qualities: audacity, sincerity, discipline, leadership, business acumen, a talent for creative problem solving, and an ability to bring light and laughter to everyone - and every situation - he encountered.” His final big projects were a 30-metre suspended steel hoop in downtown Montreal dubbed “The Ring,” and Toronto's heart-shaped Love Park - both of which are described in the obituary as love letters to Cormier's favourite cities.
He studied at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he obtained a master's degree in the history and theory of design.
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