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It has with that reality the potential of being a great landmark in Europe. Because if we are able to integrate and harmonise well the historical aspect of the building with a contemporary element of content and be original enough to make it distinctive from any other real-estate project, then you create what I call a personality to the environment in which you work on. Great projects are achieved with great complicity, but also in the recognition that it cannot just be a creative pole or just a business pole. It will arrive and it will be achieved with a great balance between the recognition of each of those poles and each respecting the reality of the other one And... "And Laliberté would have gone on like that, uninterrupted, for the full hour of the interview, had I not butted in and suggested we cover a little bit of his background. He grew up in Montreal, the son of a corporate PR executive and a nurse "It was a typical French Canadian family," he recalls. "There was always a reason for a party, always music in the house But I never really played anything.
My parents tried to get me piano lessons, but I was always giving up. I was never into the notion of structuring the learning process At school, I was smart at getting good marks. But", and here he bursts out laughing, "I won't tell you how I was getting them!"At 14, Guy hit the road It was not a gesture of rebellion. He adores his parents - indeed, they are staying with him in London at the moment, along with his wife and two young children. But, he says, "I was just a little dreamer, fascinated by the cultures of the world. And the best way of travelling was to learn a job which would permit me to wake up one day and go to the other side of the planet if I wanted to."So, I was a street musician, playing the traditional music of my country, telling stories, passing the hat on.
My big breakthrough was when I came to Europe and spent a year doing festivals I learnt to fire-breathe, juggle, do little magic tricks. I built up a passion for street-performing acts."Laliberté returned to Canada and found a job on a hydro-electric dam; after three days, the workers went on strike. Suddenly, he was back in Montreal, getting regular strike-pay from his union, with a summer stretching out before him So, he did what any other kid at a loose end would do He founded a theatre company On stilts.Laliberté started out as a performer. But it soon became clear that he had a head for business, so he became the manager, too.