Jack Diamond (architect)

Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond, OC OOnt is a Canadian architect.

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• Jack diamond
• Achieving new heights in architectural excellence jack diamond
• Buildings of note
• Work in progress
• Publications
• References

Born in Piet Retief, South Africa, he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Cape Town in 1956. He received a Master of Arts degree in politics, philosophy and economics from University of Oxford in 1958 as well as earning a rugby blue. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962 where he studied with Louis Kahn.

In 1964, he emigrated to Canada to become the founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto, a position he held until 1970. In 1975, he established his own firm, today called Diamond and Schmitt Architects.

In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, he was awarded the Order of Ontario.

He has served as a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, as Chairman of the Design Advisory Committee for the National Capital, Ottawa and as a Commissioner of the Greater Toronto Area Task Force.

Buildings of note

1978: Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

1981: Central YMCA Toronto

1986: Newcastle Town Hall

1988: Jerusalem City Hall, Israel

1988: York University Student Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada

1989: Richmond Hill Library, Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada

1995: Baycrest Apotex Retirement Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2001: Jewish Community Center in Manhattan

2006: Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario Canada

2007: Harman Center for the Arts, Washington D.C., USA

2008: Southbrook Vineyards, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

2009: Women's College Hospital Master Plan, Toronto, Ontario Canada

2010: Corus Quay Building, Toronto, Ontario Canada

2011 : Montreal Symphony House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (with SNC Lavalin and Aedifica, Montreal)

2011: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada

2011: Burlington Performing Arts Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

2012: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario Canada

2013: Bridgepoint Health Chronic Long Term Health Care Complex, Toronto, Ontario Canada

2013: The Mariinsky Theatre (Second Stage) New Opera, St. Petersburg, Russia

Work in progress

Black Sea Residential Resorts, Obzor, Bulgaria (with Urbiarch, Obzor)

Publications

1996: Works: The Architecture of A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, 1968-1994

2007: “Urban Form, Transportation and Sustainability.” Ideas that Matter, July 30

2007: “Sprawl is our ‘Inconvenient Truth’.” The Globe and Mail, May 18

2008: Insight and On Site, The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt.

2010: Sketches from Here and There