Public input needed to help shape local landmark
Royal Alberta Museum design selection process should be transparent
BY PAULA SIMONS, EDMONTON JOURNAL JULY 7, 2011 9:02
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Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum was designed by Moriyama and Teshima, who will team up with PCL for a Royal Alberta Museum.
Photograph by: Malcolm Taylor, for Postmedia News, File, edmontonjournal.com
This week, Alberta Infrastructure put out a short list of the four design consortiums selected to compete for the commission to build a new $340-million Royal Alberta Museum downtown, on the site of the old post office, a property the city has just purchased from Canada Post.
For architecture buffs, the shortlist makes for mouth-watering, even jaw-dropping reading.
Each of the four bids is anchored by a major western Canadian contractor: EllisDon, Graham Builders, Ledcor and PCL. But three of those four builders have partnered with big-name "starchitects" from across Canada and around the world, architects who have built international reputations for their museums, embassies, concert halls, churches, and other public buildings.
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