Now in the final stage of the competition, the two grand finalists will form multidisciplinary teams to develop their completed proposals leading to the final selection and announcement of the Laureat on July 15, 2022.
The Grand Finalists
Kuehn Malvezzi was founded in 2001 by architects Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn and Johannes Kuehn in Berlin. The practice has had a strong focus on cultural venues, exhibitions and public spaces, and an interest in reflexive ways of dealing with specific contexts and sensitive preservation issues.
Established in 2010 by Hubert Pelletier and Yves de Fontenay in Montreal, Pelletier de Fontenay has quickly gained a reputation for design excellence for contemporary public projects that currently include museums, schools, and public libraries projects.
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen was founded in 2002 by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen. OFFICE is renowned for its idiosyncratic architecture, in which realisations and theoretical projects stand side by side, engaging in all architectural and urbanist design, creating projects of all scales ranging from furniture to master planning in Belgium as well as internationally.
PHI Contemporary
Opening its doors in 2026, PHI Contemporary (6 900 m2 approximately) will be an institution dedicated to exploring the contemporary through public engagement with art and culture. The project will consolidate the full breadth of PHI’s public cultural offer under one roof. PHI Contemporary will create an
open space for the public to engage with
its multi-dimensional presentation of art,
discourse and creative practices between
the PHI Foundation and the PHI Centre.
International Architecture Competition
On August 26, 2021, PHI launched an International Architecture Competition for the design of PHI Contemporary. The call for candidature elicited 65 entries from world-class architectural firms from 14 countries, from which 11 were selected to compete. The competition is now entering its third and final stage. On July 15th, 2022, PHI will announce the competition laureat selected by the jury.
Competition Jury
Amale Andraos, Architect
Dean Emerita and Professor, Columbia GSAPP; Principal WORKac
Elizabeth Diller, Architect
Professor, Princeton University SOA; Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Miles Greenberg, Artist
Phoebe Greenberg
Founding Director and CCO, PHI
Jacques Lachapelle, Architect
Honorary professor, Université de Montréal School of Architecture
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Architect, Curator
Founding partner, 2050+
Jean-Michel Othoniel, Artist
Dan Stubbergaard, Architect
Founder, COBE
For more information on the competition or the project, please visit our website.
Acknowledgements
PHI would like to thank all the finalist firms for their remarkably insightful proposals for this complex project. The architectural schemes were of the highest quality and reflected, in unique and thoughtful ways, the ethos, ambitions and priorities of PHI Contemporary as an institution and an architectural landmark.
This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec.
Photo: Vincent Castonguay
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