About the competition

Five shortlisted design teams were selected as part of the Stage 1: Request for Supplier Qualifications process to move forward to the Stage 2: Request for Proposals process of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Design Competition, based on the merits of their letters of interest, team composition, resumes, and previous work.

About the teams

The design teams, listed in alphabetical order, are:

Team 1
Brook McIlroy
Trahan Architects
Hood Design Studio

Team 2
Diamond Schmitt
Smoke Architecture
MVVA

Team 3
Hariri Pontarini
LMN Architects
Tawaw Collective
Smoke Architecture
SLA

Team 4
RDHA
Mecanoo
Two Row Architect
NAK Design Strategies

Team 5
Zeidler Architecture
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Two Row Architect
PLANT Architect

The jury

The design component of the process will be judged by a jury of leaders in the fields of culture, planning, urban design, architecture, Indigenous design, and landscape architecture. Adjudication is scheduled to take place in March 2023, following the public presentation of the final design submissions on March 7.

maxine bailey

Executive Director of the Canadian Film Centre (CFC)
and co-founder of the Black Artists Network in Dialogue (BAND)

Meg Graham

Architect and Founder,
Superkül (Chair)

Seema Jethalal

Former Regional Director General, Canadian Heritage,
and inaugural Managing Director of Daniels Spectrum

Lori Marchand

Managing Director,
Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre Ottawa

Sadie Marshall

Artist

Thomas Payne

Architect and Founder,
Thomas Payne Architect

Marc Ryan

Landscape Architect and Founder,
PublicWork

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