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| All art is enhanced by the space in which it is found. Space at the Toronto Centre for the Arts is designed to be smart. Smart space begins with a seductive building. The strong is fused to the gentle, squares and rectangles, stainless steel and hardwood, side by side with curves and rolls, etched glass and colour. The Centre was built for the arts, inspired by the arts. It is the ultimate theatre and music venue in this city. Easily accessible. Top notch amenities. High class. The building can make an excellent event truly spectacular. The Centre is a complete package: three theaters with interconnected lobbies, and a large rehearsal hall. The Centre is outfitted to handle with ease, theatre and musicals, international touring ballets and operas, experimental and school theatre groups, corporate and social functions and multi-media presentations. |
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| The internationally renowned Zeidler Roberts Partnership are the architects responsible for the design of the building. Its place crowns a metropolitan landscape dotted with Zeidler Roberts creations. In conjunction with phenomenal New York acoustician Russell Johnson, the Centre is the continuation of profound theatrical design for which they have an international reputation. Senior Partner in charge of design Eberhard H. Zeidler is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (one of the only two Canadians to receive this honor) and a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Toronto Arts Awards as well as the prestigious Order of Ontario. This is to say that Mr. Zeidler and the Zeidler Roberts Partnership know buildings, music, theater and Toronto and the world has proof of it in the Toronto Centre for the Arts. |
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| A space for the senses, the lobby of the Toronto Centre for the Arts is designed to enhance one's theatrical experience. A performance begins here. Just inside the front doors, the building rises 60 feet on currents of glass and steel, a pleasant maze of lines and curves. A visual motif resonates high and low. The design, based on the harmonic series or overtones, is a graphic depiction of sound vibrations set into play when a note of music is sounded. This motif or the "physics of music", as Zeidler Roberts insists, is incorporated into the clearstory lobby glass, into the terrazzo floor and carpet patterns - a reminder that this building is not just a venue for the arts but is a conduit of the art itself. Cathedral-like columns splay upward like tree branches subtly supporting the pearlized ceiling. A grand staircase connects a mezzanine to the main floor, a public space surrounded in etched glass and devoted to the experience of theatre goers. Music and theatre beg social interaction to help define them and the lobby of the Toronto Centre for the Arts is as perfect a venue for critique and mingling as any of its three theater are for the performances that will inspire them. |
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