Celebrated Toronto architect Jack Diamond has died, his firm announced Tuesday. (Diamond Schmitt - image credit)Celebrated Toronto architect Jack Diamond, whose vision shaped some of Toronto's most notable spaces, has died just shy of his 90th birthday, his firm announced Tuesday. Diamond, whose projects included the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Museum Station, Corus Quay, Richmond Hill Central Library, and the Holy Blossom Temple, died Sunday afternoon, the firm Diamond Schmitt said in a statement. Born in South Africa, Diamond studied architecture, before going to Oxford University, where he studied politics and philosophy and economics. LISTEN | Remembering Jack Diamond and his contribution:Diamond, it says, led Toronto's implementation of infill housing to help strengthen neighbourhoods at risk.

Source: CBC News November 02, 2022 23:12 UTC