Miguel Escobar

Insights

Written down, on the record.

Press features, long-form interviews and his own writing on densification, transit-oriented development and what Montreal keeps getting wrong about its own land.

  • Press

    Oct 2024

    The atypical career of Miguel Escobar

    JBC Media — Nathalie Savaria

    A profile covering the multidisciplinary practice, Gatineau’s downtown core, the Mount Sinai relocation and the Beijing competition win.

  • Article

    May 2026

    Three early projects that helped shape Old Montreal

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    LaPresse Park, the Côte-de-la-Place-d’Armes realignment, and the Aldred Building stained glass — work done between eighteen and twenty-five.

  • Article

    May 2026

    Villa Mozart: the landmark that marked an early vision

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    How a twenty-six-year-old without a licence won the City of Montreal’s first open architecture competition.

  • Podcast

    Jun 2023

    Au-delà des plans #70

    Construction podcast, with Bruno Rajot

    A long-form interview on the path from technician to architect, and on Mount Sinai and the municipal work.

  • Podcast

    2024

    Le Meilleur Immeuble — Think Tank

    Interview, architect and planner

    On densification, transit-oriented development and what Montreal can learn from Toronto.

  • Press

    Dec 2024

    From Cantabria to the world

    Profile interview

    Santander to Canada at six, Columbia, Beijing and the 2008 Games, and why blockchain and AI belong in real estate data.

  • Article

    2021

    Transforming Montreal: the Wellington Basin redevelopment

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    A read on the Canada Lands master plan for the Bassin Wellington sector.

  • Article

    2021

    Rethinking public transport in Québec

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    Why transit investment has to be argued on land value, not only on ridership.

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