The team finalists are:

• Baird Sampson Neuert Architects (Toronto), with VLAN Paysages (Montreal landscape architects); Halcrow Yolles (structural engineer, Toronto); Cobalt Engineering (mechanical engineer, Toronto); and Mulvey & Banani International Inc. (electrical engineer, Toronto).



• Plant Architect Inc., Toronto, with Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners (architect, Toronto); Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, Inc. (landscape architect, Chicago); Adrian Blackwell (design collaborator, Toronto); Blackwell Bowick Partnership Limited (structural engineer, Toronto); and Crossey Engineering Ltd. (mechanical and electrical engineers, Toronto).



• Rogers Marvel Architects, New York, with Ken Smith Landscape Architect (New York) and Buro Happold (structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, New York).



• Zeidler Partnership Architects (Toronto), with Group Signes (landscape architects, Paris); Halcrow Yolles (structural engineer, Toronto); and Hidi Rae (mechanical and electrical engineers, Toronto) engineer.

In the first stage of the competition, 48 teams competed, which included members from Canada, Chile, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the U.S.

The competition jury is chaired by Eric Haldenby, architect and director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. The other jury members are Dinu Bumbaru, Montreal heritage architect; David Crombie, former Toronto mayor and president/CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute; Frances Halsband, architect/partner of R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects, New York; Cornelia Oberlander, distinguished landscape architect from Vancouver; and Michael Ondaatje, Toronto author.

Stage II finalists will submit detailed design plans by February 16, 2007. A public exhibition of the final designs will be held before the jury meets in early March 2007 to evaluate the designs and select a winner.

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