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McGill student team wins second prize at Ice Hotel

McGill student team Hongwon Antony Suh, Shengkun Tommy Yang, and Marina Dentico
Detail of McGill room design (Shengkun Tommy Yang, Hongwon Antony Suh, and Marina Dentico)
Prof. David Covo, Hongwun Antony Suh, Shengkun Tommy Yang, Marina Dentico, and administrative officer David Krawitz in McGill room at Ice Hotel
Happy student team and their happy supporters: David Krawitz, Marina Dentico, Prof. David Covo, Shengkun Tommy Yang, and Hongwon Antony Suh (Dany Vachon)
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Published: 25 January 2018

A McGill student team won second prize in the Architecture Éphémère competition at the Ice Hotel outside Quebec City in Valcartier at the opening celebration on Friday, January 19.  The team of U1 students Shengkun Tommy Yang, Hongwon Antony Suh, and Marina Dentico won second prize for their room Voler la vedette. Over 20 teams from the universities of Laval, McGill, Montréal, and UQAM submitted design panels to the competition, of which four were chosen to be built as theme rooms.  (The other three winners were all from Laval.)  Exceptionally, the McGill scheme, due to its ambitious and challenging nature, was given an extra-large room to accommodate the execution of the modified design.  At the award ceremony, the jury chief, Philippe Lupien, playfully warned the McGill team’s teacher and advisor, Prof. David Covo, not to expect such a luxury again.

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