Aurèle Cardinal is a

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and

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. In 2007, his plan for the

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campus of the

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received the award of excellence for

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from the

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. Cardinal, who is a partner in Groupe Cardinal Hardy, conceived the plan in collaboration with Groupe Provencher & Roy architectes, another Quebec firm. He has also taught at the university's ''Faculté d'aménagement'' (Faculty of Planning esign, architecture, landscaping, urban planning since 1979. In the early 1990s, Cardinal collaborated with Peter Rose on the redevelopment of the

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.. Cardinal Hardy and Provencher & Roy also collaborated on the design of the

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district.

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