Address: 201 City Centre Drive Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: Living Arts Centre
Architects: Zeidler Eberhard
Address: 227 Front Street East Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: Joey and Toby Tannenbaum Opera Centre Notes: A rehersal hall owned by the Canadian Opera Company. One building owned by the COC was originally a factory / warehouse -- part of the Gas Works complex which was built in 1888 by Strickland & Symons. The Opera Centre also includes three buildings immediately adjacent to the Gas Works Building which used to be the Standard Wollen Knitting Mills.
Architects: Arcorp Associates (firm) Behar Moiz Lennox Edward Strickland & Symonds (firm)
Address: 86 Lombard Street Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: Pauline McGibbon Centre Notes: Building was originally the City of Toronto Morgue, 1904.
Architects: Thom Partnership (firm)
Address: 231 Queens Quay West Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: DuMaurrier Theatre Notes: Complex was intially called the Harbourfront Arts Centre. "Part of Toronto's Harbourfront redevelopment, the complex consists of two buildings linked by a common lobby. The theatre, on the complex's north side, was built in 1926 as an ice house to serve the adjacent Toronto Terminal Warehouse (now Queens Quay Terminal) while to the south, the art gallery building [The Power Plant] , also built in 1926, housed the Terminal's heating and refrigeration equipment and was in operation until 1980. Renovations began in 1985 and were completed in 1987. (Cdn. Archt., March 1988, p.20)
Architects: Lett / Smith Architects (firm)
Address: 470 Queens Quay West Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: National Ballet of Canada Centre Notes: Also known as the Walter Carsen Centre. Occupies the lower levels of the King's Landing Condominiums which were designed by Arthur Erickson in 1982.
Architects: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (firm)
Address: 0 Victoria Street Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: Toronto Arts Building
Architects: Safdie Moshe
Address: 5040 Yonge Street Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres Name of Building: George Weston Recital Hall Notes: Formerly the North York Centre for the Performing Arts, then renamed the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts. Centre contains 3 theatres -- the Main Stage, the Recital Hall and the smaller Studio Theatre.
Architects: Zeidler Roberts Partnership