OTTAWA – The federal government has announced the five teams selected to develop design proposals for the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan.
The following teams were shortlisted by a jury of experts following the request for qualifications that opened on Aug. 2, 2019 and closed on Feb. 27, 2020:
– Team Daoust: Daoust Lestage, architects, urban designers and landscape architects (Montreal); Louise Arbour, strategic adviser (Montreal); Luca Fortin, public artist (Quebec City).
– Team Hapa: Joseph Fry, landscape architect (Vancouver); Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew, visual artists (Vancouver).
– Team Lashley + JMA: Lashley + Associates, landscape architects (Ottawa and Montreal); John MacDonald Architect (Kitchener); Sandra Dunn, visual artist (Kitchener).
– Team PFS Studio: Jennifer Nagai, landscape architect, PFS Studio (Vancouver); Nicolas Demers-Stoddart, architect, Provencher Roy (Montreal); Jonathan Villeneuve, visual artist (Montreal).
– Team Stimson: Adrian Stimson, visual artist (Siksika Nation, Alberta); Jana Joyce, landscape architect, MBTW Group (Toronto), Graham Carr, landscape designer, MBTW Group (Toronto); Christine Leu and Alan Webb, public art co-ordinators, LeuWebb Projects (Toronto).
The design teams will have until spring 2021 to complete their proposals. The monument will be built on the east side of Booth Street, north of the National Holocaust Monument and across the street from the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Veterans, the deceased soldiers’ families, Canadian Armed Forces and others will be invited to review the proposals before a decision is made in spring/summer 2021.
Completion is scheduled by 2024.
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