Aerial view of Parliament Hill and Block 2
PWGSC has announced six shortlisted teams for the Block 2 international design competition, to redesign the urban block facing Parliament Hill in Ottawa.  The six finalists were selected from a long-list of 12 competitors who prepared initial design concepts, which were evaluated by a team of technical advisors, as well as by a jury that met in Ottawa earlier this fall.
The following teams will advance to stage 2 of 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)
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)

?I?ve always known that at some point we would get around to filling in the biggest missing piece?which was what we now call Block 2, but we could also call the fourth side of Parliament Square, or the closing of Parliament Hill,? says Honorary Jury Chair John Ralston Saul. ?I realize that there is the whole utilitarian aspect to wh...