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About the process
We are holding an architectural design competition for Block 2 to renew the city block directly across from Parliament Hill.
As part of the process, we asked interested firms to demonstrate they are qualified to undertake the work. They were assessed based on the evaluation criteria included in the Request for Qualification.
The 12 firms with the highest evaluated scores were invited to participate in stage 1 of the architectural design competition.
The jury for the architectural design competition for Block 2 will then evaluate their submissions and select the top 6 teams, who will then advance to stage 2 of the competition.
Pre-qualified teams
As part of stage 1 of the competition, we invited the pre-qualified firms to submit an outline of their design concepts. All 12 teams have at least one Canadian partner.
The following teams were selected to participate in the architectural design competition for Block 2.
- Architecture49 Inc. (Ottawa, Canada) in joint venture with Foster+Partners (London, United Kingdom) in association with DFS Inc. Architecture & Design (Montréal, Canada)
- BDP Quadrangle (Toronto, Canada) in joint venture with Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, Switzerland): has since withdrawn from the competition
- Diamond Schmitt Architects (Toronto, Canada) in joint venture with Bjarke Ingels Group (New York, United States), KWC Architects (Ottawa, Canada) and ERA Architects (Toronto, Canada)
- Grimshaw Architects (New York, United States) in association with Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker (Montréal, Canada)
- Hassell Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia) in association with Partisans (Toronto, Canada)
- Hopkins Architects (London, United Kingdom) in association with CORE Architects Inc. (Toronto, Canada)
- KPMB Architects (Toronto, Canada)
- NEUF Architects (Ottawa, Canada) in joint venture with Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Paris, France)
- Provencher Roy + Associés Architectes Inc. (Montréal, Canada)
- Watson MacEwen Teramura Architects (Ottawa, Canada) in joint venture with Behnisch Architekten (Boston, United States)
- Wilkinson Eyre (London, United Kingdom) in association with IDEA Inc. (Ottawa, Canada)
- Zeidler Architecture Inc. (Toronto, Canada) in association with David Chipperfield Architects (London, United Kingdom)
Related links
- Architectural design competition for Block 2
- Jury for the architectural design competition for Block 2
- Request for Qualification
- Explore the blocks south of Wellington Street
- Planning for the future of the Parliamentary Precinct campus
- Video: Government of Canada will soon launch design competition for city block facing Parliament Hill