Award of Excellence
Building in Context - Public

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

Address: 145 Queen Street West
Architecture: Diamond + Schmitt Architects Incorporated
Landscape Architecture: du Toit Allsopp Hillier
Client: Canadian Opera House Corporation

Jury Comments
A noble contribution to the city's most important ceremonial street, this project exemplifies the dignity of restraint. Its emphatically transparent University Avenue façade creates street theatre at its finest: the audience becomes the performer for everyone to watch as they pass by. The jury was divided about the handling of the ancillary elevations on Richmond and York Streets, with some defending them as necessary evils and others seeing them as crude.