Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Building Type: Performing Arts Centres

Address: 201 City Centre Drive
Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres
Name of Building: Living Arts Centre

Dates
Design conceived c1987
Officially opened Oct 1997

Architects: Zeidler Eberhard
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Globe & Mail 1999 March A16+ 18th
Globe & Mail 1994 Sept C14 10th
Toronto Star 1995 July MS6 20th
Toronto Star 1994 July A7 15th
Toronto Star 1992 Nov MS2 26th

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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.

Dates
Building completed 1988
Altered c1983

Architects: Arcorp Associates (firm)
Behar Moiz
Lennox Edward
Strickland & Symonds (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown remembered 1984 n/a 83-84
Contract Magazine 1987 Jan/Feb 58-61 6 1
Houses of old Toronto 1977 n/a 86-89
Toronto Star 2000 Dec. K4-5 Sat. 2nd

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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)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1980 April 31-32 25 3

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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)

Dates
Building completed 1926
Altered 1985-1987

Architects: Lett / Smith Architects (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1988 March 20-27

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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.

Dates
Altered 1996-97

Architects: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1997 May 28-29 42 5
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg 1998 n/a 46-49

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Address: 0 Victoria Street
Type of Building: Performing Arts Centres
Name of Building: Toronto Arts Building

Dates
Design conceived c1992
Building completed never

Architects: Safdie Moshe
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1992 Jan. 8 37 1

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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.

Dates
Building completed c1993

Architects: Zeidler Roberts Partnership
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1992 July 8 37 7
Globe & Mail 1993 Oct. C1,C8 Sat. 16th
Globe & Mail 1993 March C5 Thur 25th
Globe & Mail 1993 Sept. C2 Thur 23rd
Globe & Mail 1993 March D6 Thur 18th
Globe & Mail 1993 Nov. D1 23rd
Insite 1994 Jan. 48-54
Toronto Contruction News 1993 Jul/Aug 17-18 11 4
Toronto Star 2002 March J2 16th
Toronto Star 1992 Aug A1,32 Fri. 21st
Toronto Star 1993 May G6 22nd
Toronto Star 1998 Nov. A18 29th
Toronto Star 2000 March E1+ Sun. 5th
Toronto Star 1992 Sept C12 Sun. 27th