PUBLIC CITY is a critical design studio practicing in Manitoba, Ontario and Alberta. The firm is owned by architect Peter Sampson and landscape architect Liz Wreford. The award-winning design firm is known for invention, place making, and design excellence. 

In 2017, the firm was acknowledged by the Globe and Mail and Azure Magazine as being among the top critical design practices leading the twenty-first century in Canadian design. In 2022, the firm won the coveted Governor General medal and was the winner of an international completion for the design and construction of Canadian national 2SLGBTQI+ monument to the Purge in Ottawa.

Public City’s expertise includes architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, public art, public engagement and indigenous design consultation in a single hybrid practice.

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