Sophie Beaudoin

As co-president and partner at CCxA since 2011, Sophie is a tenacious city-builder of transformative signature landscape projects. With over 30 years of professional experience, she directs major projects across Canada. A seasoned generalist, she is adept in dense urban settings with complex multidisciplinary teams, bringing strong delivery and time management skills to her projects. Her results-oriented leadership style has been characterized by the French expression “d’une main de fer dans un gant de velours” (an iron hand in a velvet glove). Sophie’s reputation for exceptional design and project management is grounded in creative problem solving, deep knowledge of technical detailing and construction.

Her major projects as partner-in-charge include Dorchester Square & Place du Canada and The Ring in Montreal; The esplanade for the Canadian Museum of History and the competition-winning National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, and the landscape plan at the heart of a new “city from scratch” in Vaughan. She is a veteran of several of the studio’s long-term multi-phase projects with significant heritage components, including Place d’Youville, Clock Tower Beach in Montreal and the new McGill campus, The New Vic, at old Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal.

Sophie joined CCxA (previously named Claude Cormier et Associés) in 2003 as one of founder Claude Cormier’s first employees, becoming a CCxA partner in 2011 and co-president 2022. She became a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture in 2020, graduating from the University of Montreal with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1993. She contributes a strong civic voice in Montreal, as a frequent speaker, competition jury member and advocate for the role of landscape in positions such as VP of Montreal’s Jacques-Viger Expert Committee, the city’s consultative body in matters of development, town planning, architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.