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Key Projects, alphabetical:
Cambridge Civic Administration Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2008-
Corus Entertainment building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007
Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
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Foreign Ministry of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
2007
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007
For Canadian Opera Company + National Ballet of Canada
2,000 seat auditorium
Hendrie Gateway Pavilion, Royal Ontario Botanical Gardens, Montreal, Canada
2007-
Life Sciences Building, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Los Alamos Civic Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
2009-
Mariinsky Theatre
Montreal Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sidney Harman Hall, Washington, D.C., USA
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Southbrook Vineyards, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
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Toronto Central Waterfront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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More projects online soon
Practice Information
Office based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Diamond and Schmitt Architects is recognized as one of Canada’s leading architectural practices. Founded in 1975 and located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the firm currently employs 160 architects working on projects worldwide. The founding principals of the firm are architects A.J. Diamond and Donald Schmitt.
Over the course of three decades, Diamond and Schmitt Architects has steadily grown in both size and reputation with an increased focus on large-scale institutional buildings designed to meet the specific needs of performing arts organizations, as well as academic and medical research institutions, many of which have won international design awards. Design success has been matched with equal success by budget and schedule control, a record in which the firm takes much pride.
The firm has recently completed award-winning performing arts centres for the Canadian Opera Company, the National Ballet of Canada, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Washington’s Sidney Harman Hall, and the Garter Lane Theatre in Ireland. Currently in design are concert halls for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Denver Symphony Orchestra as well as a number of performance halls for smaller theatre groups in both Canada and the United States.
Three of the firm’s recent projects were recognized by Architectural Record and its sister publication BusinessWeek as being among the 10 best buildings in the world in the following years - 2004: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem; 2007: the Four Seasons Center for the Performing arts in Toronto, Canada; 2008: The Sidney Harman Hall at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Measurable results proving that these buildings changed people’s lives helped support the theory that good design equals good business. As well, the firm has received over 150 regional, national and international awards for excellence in design as well as awards from national building associations (brick, concrete, steel, wood, glass and bronze) and ‘green’ organizations such as the U.S. and Canadian Green Building Councils for leadership in the design of environmentally sustainable buildings.
Diamond and Schmitt Architects has developed a reputation as a teaching office, encouraging an open and collaborative design process that over the years has attracted talented young architects from around the world. The architectural teams are lively and diverse with over 25 languages currently spoken within the office.
In 2004 and again in 2008 the international accounting and consulting firm Deloitte LLP included Diamond and Schmitt Architects on their list of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada. In 2008 A.J. Diamond co-authored (with Donald Schmitt and Don Gillmor) Insight and On Site, The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt. Part manifesto, part monograph, the book addresses critical urban issues and provides examples from the firm’s architectural practice that both address and offer planning and design solutions to those issues.
Left to right: AJ Diamond, Gary Mcluskie, Michael Tracey:
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