The project site is situated at the confluence of the three rivers we now call Gatineau, Ottawa, and Rideau, and has been home to and visited by Indigenous people for thousands of years. It has been a point of connection and trade throughout history, including between the host Algonquin Nation, Haudenosaunee, and Huronne-Wendat Peoples and later as the founding site of Ottawa, Canada’s capital. In collaboration with Indigenous architects, Two Row Architect and consultants Innovation 7, the design thinking and the programming for the site has been developed to carry forward and honour its pre-settlement history and the site’s identity as a place of connection and community. Sustainability and stewardship are core traditional values in Indigenous communities. The historical alignment of Wellington Street is recovered and made visible, establishing a physical connection to Ādisōke and the emerging public space system, but also a conceptual connection to the Parliament Precinct which has been lost over time as Wellington Street has been realigned. The landscape features a gathering place between the two towers to be used as a central social public space which pays tribute to Indigenous ideas of connectivity.