Today, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and Councillor Pam McConnell officially unveiled the five short-listed competing designs in the St. Lawrence Market North Building Design Competition. In February 2010, five design teams were selected from a field of 30 to compete in Stage 2 of the competition and develop full architectural building designs.

The five short-listed teams that are presenting design concepts for this competition are:
Adamson Associates Architects and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Cohos Evamy + Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
NORR Limited, Architects Engineers Planners
Taylor Hazell Architects and Montgomery Sisam

In mid-May, a jury of seven distinguished members will evaluate the five short-listed submissions and choose a winning design. The competition winner will be announced on June 7, and until then, each of the designs are anonymous, identified only by a designated colour to ensure fairness and equity in judging.

Today the five short-listed competitors who will vie for the title of ‘winning design' in the St. Lawrence Market North Building Design Competition were revealed.

The announcement comes after architectural teams across the country and abroad responded to Stage 1 of the competition by submitting expressions of interest, and the City and a professional advisor to the competition narrowed the field to a final list of competitors. Stage 2 of the competition begins today, in which the finalists develop full building designs. These will be exhibited to the public in May.

The list of jury members for Stage 2 was also unveiled today. The jury members, who come from across North America, will deliberate, debate and adjudicate over which design should be chosen for the North Market redevelopment. The redevelopment of the St. Lawrence Market North property is to replace the existing one-storey North Market building with a new four-storey, multi-purpose facility that is more environmentally sustainable, energy efficient and mindful of the character and heritage of the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood.