Teams led by Foster & Partners, Heatherwick Studio and Wilkinson Eyre vying forone of the most significant design projects in recent British historyThe winning team will be announced this summerFoster & Partners, Heatherwick Studio and Wilkinson Eyre are among five design teams shortlisted by the government in the contest to design a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.Two further teams led by landscape architects Tom Stuart-Smith and J&L Gibbons have also made the second round of the open competition launched in December last year.The Cabinet Office has described the permanent 46m memorial, which will be located in St Jamess Park, as one of the most significant design projects in recent British history.Shortlist for the Queen Elizabeth II National MemorialFoster & Partners with Yinka Shonibare and Michel Desvigne PaysagisteHeatherwick Studio with Halima Cassell, MRG Studio, Webb Yates and ArupJ&L Gibbons with Michael Levine RDI, William Matthews Associates, Structure Workshop and ArupTom Stuart-Smith with Jamie Fobert Architects, Adam Lowe (Factum Arte) and Structure WorkshopWilkinson Eyre with Lisa Vandy and Fiona Clark, Andy Sturgeon Design, Atelier One and Hilson MoranDesign teams have been asked to create a masterplan that celebrates the late Queens life of service while providing spaces for reflection on the chosen site, which covers land either side of the pathway leading to the parks lake.Specific interventions will include the replacement of the 1950s Blue Bridge, a statue of the late Queen designed by a sculptor appointed by the winning team, new landscaping and artistic installations.The memorial will be located in St Jamess Park on land either side of its lakeThe winning team will be announced this summer alongside the appointment of the teams chosen artist or sculptor, with the final design to be formally announced in April next year to coincide with what would have been Queen Elizabeths hundredth birthday.The competition is being run by the The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, chaired by the Queens former private secretary Robin Janvrin, which is working with Malcolm Reading Consultants.Janvrin has said the memorial must be - simply - a beautiful place, somewhere to visit with family and friends, to enjoy and to reflect on an extraordinary life.Janvrin, a British naval officer who was the Queens private secretary from 1999 to 2007, said tams would be challenged in the second stage to evoke memories of Queen Elizabeth IIs outstanding contribution to national life and to tell the story of Her Majestys long reign through an original masterplan that is sensitive to the unique setting.The competition follows extensive engagement by the committee with the four nations of the United Kingdom to inform its scope and brief.The Blue Bridge, built in 1957, will be replaced as part of the memorial project