Award of Excellence
Visions and Master Plans

Agora Theatre - Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization

Address: 100 Queen Street West
Architecture: PLANT Architect Inc., Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners Architects
Landscape Architecture: Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture Inc.
Design Collaborator: Adrian Blackwell
Client: City of Toronto

Jury Comments
A respectful plan that restores the dignity of Toronto's iconic urban space, this intervention maintains the best qualities of the original scheme - the pool, the Moore sculpture and the open plaza - while editing or re-animating some of its less successful elements. Although readily implementable and apparently sustainable, the project will require long-term commitment.