The former Westwood Theatre Lands, the proposed site of the new Etobicoke Civic Centre Precinct and Etobicoke Civic Centre.
Build Toronto, the City of Toronto?s real estate and development investment corporation, has selected five shortlisted teams to submit their proposals to design a new Etobicoke Civic Centre and square as part of the Westwood Theatre Lands redevelopment.
The five shortlisted design teams, in alphabetical order, are:

Adamson Associates Architects | Henning Larsen Architects | PMA Landscape Architects
Diamond Schmitt Architects | Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
KPMB Architects | West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
Montgomery Sisam Architects | Adjaye Associates | OLIN
Moriyama & Teshima Architects | MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects | FORREC Ltd.
The international design competition attracted submissions from various cities. The five shortlisted firms comprise of teams from Brooklyn, Copenhagen, London (U.K.), Philadelphia, Rotterdam and Toronto. The second stage of the competition kicks off this month as the five teams begin to work on developing a vision for the new civic landmark.
?This is the beginning of an exciting project to design an entirely new community with a civic centre and public space, that will also allow us to streamline the six points intersection and make this the heart of Etobicoke,? says Chair of the Board and Councillor David Shiner (Ward 24 Willowdale). ?As stewards of public land, Build Toronto and the Ci...