267
O'Connor

For more than 30 years, Taggart Realty Management has been shaping real estate in Eastern Ontario. The company has evolved from a small family owned and operated property management business into a multifaceted and professional real estate development group with a significant market presence. Taggart Realty Management has acquired, developed and manages over 3 million square feet of real estate including multi-unit residential properties, shopping centres, office buildings, and industrial facilities.

UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, is an international network specialising in architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban development and infrastructural projects. With seven full-service international offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Dubai, Melbourne and Austin and over 300 employees from 27 countries, UNStudio’s streamlined structure enables the practice to spend less time organising and more time designing and collaborating with their clients.

UNStudio’s mission is to design for lasting impact and contribute to the societal challenges of urbanisation, climate change, ageing populations and socioeconomic inequality. Driven by purpose and focused on solutions, they create value by designing for the implications of these megatrends on the built environment. Designs that make our lives healthier, have little impact on the planet, but a lasting impact on our cities - and people.

Established in 1979, Barry J. Hobin & Associates Architects Incorporated set out to craft a brand identity based upon unsurpassed client satisfaction and design excellence. Today, Hobin Architecture has evolved from a founding principal, Barry J. Hobin, into a team of over 45 talented professionals. The firm believes strongly in integrating professional and personal values. Hobin Architecture is committed to creating buildings and places that strengthen our neighbourhoods, enhance our daily lives, and make our city more beautiful and connected. For over 40 years, they have merged an abiding passion for design with a deeply-felt sense of responsibility to the Ottawa community—to create a design team that innovates, client relationships that endure, buildings that inspire and environments that nurture creativity, health, spirituality, and commerce.

Fotenn is an award-winning planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm. As the principal urban planning consultant for the proposal, Fotenn will work alongside the interdisciplinary project team to lead the development application process for Taggart’s Landmark Building Proposal at 267 O’Connor Street, in Ottawa. With over 70 staff, each with unique skills and interests, Fotenn consistently provides high-quality planning and design services to growing communities in Ontario and throughout Canada. For this important project, Fotenn will draw on 30+ years of expertise to provide professional planning services in site planning, policy interpretation, file management, community consultation, and urban design. Fotenn will work with the project team to engage with stakeholders, identify innovative solutions, and contribute to a responsive and meaningful proposal that will bring world-class development to the centre of Ottawa.