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Parliamentary Precinct Redevelopment - Block 2 in Ottawa / Réaménagement de la Cité parlementaire - Bloc 2 à Ottawa

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Block 2 should learn from its historic urban grain

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Restoring the historic urban grain of Block 2 and reinstating a dignified edge of Wellington Street

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Hopkins Architects
	hopkins.co.uk/

	Core Architects Inc.
	corearchitects.com/

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Description

This is one of the most important sites in Ottawa and we believe Block 2 should retain the essence of the fragmented beauty and human scale first seen in Bankers' Row 150 years ago. Our proposal is therefore about granularity, materiality, human scale and a celebration of old and new. It's a respectful composition that shouldn't compete with the surrounding buildings, but be in a supporting role to them (such as the Prime Minister's Office, Indigenous Peoples' Space and Parliament Hill)

This is a special, challenging site with a lot of existing buildings. The easiest approach would be to demolish all buildings and start anew, however this would be insensitive to the rich history and meaning of the site and therefore the approach to this project at this stage should be to aim to retain as much as possible and where necessary open up and make changes to existing buildings to avoid facadism.

We feel the floors for all new Parliamentary facilities should be at one level for Block 2 East and West to improve accessibility and long term use. However as the existing buildings are at different levels, the challenge is to reconcile the two together. This will need time to get right and we therefore deliberately avoided making a conclusion as to how to approach this for Stage 1 of our submission.

(From competitor's text)

Jury Report

This project responds to the historic context of the site and the existing buildings very well in terms of building massing, height, and setback of upper floors on Wellington Street, and retention of historic facades. The project team has made considerable effort to re-interpret into their design the materials and details of adjacent buildings and other nearby building blocks. The team has considered the infill of the Wellington Street facade to re-establish the historic scale of the street. The architectural treatment of the Spark Street facades demonstrates an effort to retain a variety of treatment but did not set back the new floor plates to reinforce a mix of heights and massing.

The approach meets the requirements for efficiency of plan and phasing of the project. The building office plan is coherent and has reasonable wayfinding clarity on the office floors.

The concept of the north side arcade is an interesting approach to setting back the main floor, but the jury had concerns about the comfort of that space in winter and whether the ground floor functions animated this space enough to make it welcoming and secure. The building entry locations are also not easily recognizable with this uniform treatment of the facade.

The jury had several concerns including:

The office floor areas fail to provide sufficient daylight or views for the south side offices of Block 2 west and appear to be built up to the Valour facade in some cases. The interconnection of spaces with the Valour building are not clear.

The floor levels in the Victoria building do not appear to relate to the window openings of the existing facade or the change in floor level in plan is not addressed.

The opportunities afforded in the program for celebration of meetings spaces such as conference room lobbies were not evident in the plan. Major meeting room, lobbies and building circulation are not provided exposure to the parliamentary campus or daylight.

The planning around the IPS space is poor. The massing is built up very close to the east and west sides of the IPS setbacks. This can result in loss of office views and daylight when the IPS project proceeds. More importantly it does not demonstrate an open and welcoming rapport with the IPS spaces as noted in section D-44 of the RFP.

The atrium spaces are quite compressed, and a significant number of office spaces rely on these elements for daylight and view.

The project statement mention a ground floor relationship with the Peace Tower axis but the architecture of the facade and the scale of the gesture in plan do not recognize or reinforce this statement.

A critical issue for the jury is that while there is some significant strength in the focus on a historic style of facade and massing treatment, this approach does not balance the importance or potential future dialogue with the IPS space other than in the architectural statement mentioning possible incorporation of indigenous design elements into the facades. This architectural approach is subtle and contextual but does not achieve the goals for the project for an " inspirational and forward-leaning design".

As a result, while the project displayed qualities that were recognized and praised by the jury, due to the above mentioned points, the perceived weaker potential for further development, and the relative strengths of other proposals, the project was not selected to advance to stage 2 of the competition.

(From jury report)

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