, Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop, and Randall Stout are announced as the four finalists among an impressive list of internationally reknown architecture teams bidding for the design of Edmonton's new Art Gallery. Gallery director Tony Luppino was quoted as saying, "This is probably the most exciting architectural competition Canada has seen in some time." From the Edmonton Journal.
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this is a very diverse group of offices... it will be interesting to see who comes out on top in September!
By JAMES ADAMS
Monday, May 9, 2005 Page R2
Toronto -- The 2004 winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, the man behind Toronto's audacious Ontario College of Art and Design and a former associate of Frank Gehry are among the four design teams in the running for a $48-million commission to revamp the Edmonton Art Gallery.
The finalists -- Britain's Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, OCAD designer Will Alsop, Los Angeles architect Randall Stout, plus Vancouver architects Arthur Erickson and Nick Milkovich -- were in the Alberta capital last week to visit the 36-year-old building that is the gallery's current home and meet with 500 delegates at the annual convention of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada.
The four finalists were chosen from portfolios submitted by 25 architects or architectural teams, including such notables as Douglas Cardinal, Robert A.M. Stern, Dan S. Hanganu and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg. Later this year the finalists -- Erickson/Milkovich are partnering with Eugene Dub, the architect of Edmonton's City Hall, while Alsop is associated with Toronto's Quadrangle Architects, a firm known for its retrofitting skills -- are to present their conceptual renderings for the gallery.
They've been given the option of including the present building in their design or "starting from scratch," a gallery spokesperson said last week.
The project is expected to be completed by 2009.
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