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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