Foster & Partners, Zaha Hadid and Will Alsop have been knocked out of the star-studded race to build a new £90 million cancer treatment centre in London.

The news is a particular blow to Foster’s Spencer de Grey who pulled out of the judging process to make sure his firm could bid for the job at Guy’s Hospital.

Client Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust wanted architects to form teams with contractors ahead of interviews last week.

Foster’s had linked up with Vinci Construction, Will Alsop at RMJM was working with Shepherd while Zaha Hadid Architects had reprised its relationship with Balfour Beatty – the same team working on the 2012 aquatics centre in east London.

The remaining six teams will now receive a design brief next week from the client with a decision due to be taken in July.

The teams making the shortlist are:

• Anshen & Allen Associates / Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners / Laing O’Rourke

• Woods Bagot / BDP / Brookfield Construction

• Hopkins Architects / Skanska Construction UK

• Grimshaw / Jonathan Bailey Associates / Bovis Lend Lease

• Make / Mace

• Allies & Morrison / Devereux Architects / Kier Regional

The judging panel includes Simon Allford of AHMM, the hospital’s director of estates Alastair Gourley, who was in charge of the Hopkins-designed Evelina children’s hospital at the St Thomas’s site, and Eric Parry, who took Spencer de Grey’s place.

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