Marc Hallé

As CCxA co-president and partner, Marc has spearheaded some of the studio’s best-loved public spaces. Marc is known for his ability to use design narrative to bring together vision, complex design teams and stakeholders to achieve designs of uncommon quality and clarity. Marc’s role is to focus the raison d’etre of the design, with an innate optimism that makes him the keeper of a project’s positive momentum. Marc’s unique strengths include a gift for writing, design rigour, and commitment to landscape architecture as a practical, creative art. He balances acumen for managing complex teams and projects with the invisible skills of the landscape architect: social inclusiveness, sustainability, water and infrastructure management.

With over 20 years of experience on award and competition-winning projects and public realms across the country, Marc’s experience includes all facets of landscape architecture: urban parks, plazas, waterfronts, master plans, brownfield development, streetscapes and large-scale residential/mixed use communities. He is partner-in-charge of recent projects that include Love Park, Berczy Park, Breakwater Park, and Leslie Lookout Park. He has acted as project manager and team lead on several of the studio’s best-loved landscapes: the competition-winning Sugar Beach, Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, and Blue Tree, California.

Marc joined CCxA (previously named Claude Cormier et Associés) in 2003 as one of founder Claude Cormier’s longest standing team members. He became a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture in 2021, graduating from the University of Toronto with a Masters of Landscape Architecture in 2004. Marc grew up in Saskatchewan, completing an undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the University of Saskatchewan before pivoting into landscape design. Marc is a mentor for younger colleagues within the studio and frequent visiting lecturer/critic in the US and Canada.