Montreal firm YH2 wins Quebec architecture award for landscape-focused home on Lake Memphremagog
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Montréal-based architecture firm YH2 has won an Award of Excellence from the Ordre des architectes du Québec for their residential project "Inhabited Topography: A Dialectic of Place" in Quebec's Potton region. The home, situated on a steep, wooded site overlooking Lake Memphremagog, flips typical residential design by prioritizing the landscape and topography over conventional interior-focused layouts. The award-winning scheme reimagines the relationship between dwelling and terrain.
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· 2 pulledThe design of the scheme responds to a steep, wooded site overlooking Lake Memphremagog in Québec's Potton region.
Titled 'Inhabited Topography: A Dialectic of Place,' the project has received an Award of Excellence in Architecture from the Ordre des architectes du Québec in its 2026 awards programme.
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