[3][4][5] In 2020 the fund and the National Capital Commission announced the planned site, a parkland site on Wellington Street between Library and Archives Canada and the Portage Bridge,[2] and launched a design competition for artists and architects to submit proposals.
[7] They included The Lens, by Fathom Studio, Two Row Architect and MVRDV; A Glass Bowl, by MASS Design Group and Stephen Andrews; Bapiiwin, by SOM, HTFC, Rebecca Belmore, Noam Gonick, Lyle Dick and Iraklis Lampropoulos; Thunderhead, by Public City, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan and Albert McLeod; and OnCommonGround by bbb architects Ottawa, PWP Landscape Architects, WSP Engineering, Nadia Myre, Udo Schliemann, Robert Lepage, Nicole Crevier and Trudi Fontaine.
[7] In March 2022, the Thunderhead design was announced as the final winner by LGBT Purge Fund director Michelle Douglas.
[8] It will feature a mirrored thunderhead cloud inside a large column surrounded by an orchard, a medicinal garden, a healing circle with stones selected by indigenous elders and a walking path, and is intended to serve both as a space for quiet reflection on LGBTQ history in Canada and a venue for artistic performances and protests.
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