The rehabilitation of the Canadian Parliament is named the Future Project Award 2024 Winner in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s (CTBUH) Award of Excellence program.
HOK and WSP’s joint venture rehabilitation of Centre Block, the main Canadian Parliamentary facility in Ottawa, has won the Future Project Award category in CTBUH’s Awards of Excellence program.
The rehabilitation of the century-old building is one of the largest and most complex expansion and retrofit of a heritage building ever undertaken. On-site work began in 2022 and is expected to last until 2031.
Render of the Centre Block renovation including the new underground Parliament Welcome Centre.
The project includes reorganizing and upgrading the entire 1922 Beaux-Arts Parliament building, including its iconic 302-foot-tall Peace Tower and adjacent ground, to 21st century standards. The expansion will feature a new underground Parliament Welcome Centre on Parliament Hill creating a new entrance experience for visitors.
Left to right: HOK’s Jonathan Zee and Stefan Abidin join WSP’s Susan Vivian in accepting the award at CTBUH’s 2024 conference in London.
“We are honored CTBUH recognized the impact of this project, which is setting new benchmarks for the sustainable reuse of valuable assets in our urban habitat,” said Stefan Abidin, a HOK principal based in Toronto. “This is a win not just for the HOK-WSP joint venture of CENTRUS, but for all the partners on this extraordinarily complex and rewarding project, including Architecture49, DFS, ERA Architects and others.”