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Theatre Du Vieux TerrebonneTerrebonne is one of these typical North American suburbs on the outskirts of Montreal.
From the highway, it is difficult to imagine the architectural delights which still stand at its core where the old village used to be.
Socially, this is a theatre-loving community who waited a number of years for the Quebec government to commit to funding a new auditorium.
A two-stage ideas competition was launched in March 2002 and in July 2002, Atelier TAG1 (in collaboration with Jodoin Lamarre Pratte et associés architectes) were declared the winning team.
Not long before, Atelier TAG had won the very first competition they entered on their own, the Châteauguay Municipal Library competition.
Suddenly, Quebec-born architect Manon Asselin and her partner (in life as in business) Katsuhiro Yamazaki have become a force to be reckoned with.
They met each other at McGill University although Asselin was a teacher by the time she knew Yamazaki.
She had worked in India, studied in the Netherlands and travelled far and wide bringing Atelier TAG a wealth of experience.
Yamazaki's contribution is an ingrained preoccupation with simplicity and harmony derived from his own rich cultural background, having been born in Costa Rica to Japanese parents.
The way both view their practice is fairly typical of
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