Guillaume Paradis

As a partner and CCxA’s studio director, Guillaume brings the studio together as a high-functioning team. He oversees operations, quality and the studio’s best practices, guiding project design, approvals and delivery with a collaborative and flexible leadership mindset. He specializes in Toronto-based, complex urban projects, working seamlessly with renowned Canadian and international architectural teams on high-profile public and development projects. Closely mentored by firm founder Claude Cormier, Guillaume is known for simple, grounded, strategic design. An active listener and agile situational thinker, he contributes spatial design strategies on projects that demand an equality in landscape and architectural expression.

Prominent Toronto projects include several dense, mixed-use tower development projects that are part of Toronto’s recent construction boom and focus on high-quality shared landscape: The Well, The James, 88 Queen St, Commerce Court, 100 Lombard Street, and Bloor-Kipling Phase 1, and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre/Transit City. He has spearheaded several of CCxA’s celebrated public space and competition-winning projects, including Mount Vernon Plaza in Ohio, phase two Sugar Beach North, Au Grand Dam, Aires Libres, TOM au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. Recently, as project lead on The Well, he led a creative collaborative process that spanned over a decade and included five prominent architects on 8.5-acre city block site, offering up trademark CCxA conceptual clarity and meticulous detailing for this grand promenade and multi-level public space and galleria.

Guillaume became a CCxA (previously named Claude Cormier et Associés) partner in 2021. He had joined the firm in 2010, after working in Lausanne, Switzerland for two years and graduating from the Université de Montréal in 2008.