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Canadian design and allied arts.” The group was informally dubbed “The Diet Kitchen School of Architecture,” and many of its members would go on to design landmark buildings in Canada. The practice was renamed Marani and Paisley in 1924, and then Marani Lawson and Paisley in 1927, when it landed its first major commission for the Medical Arts Building at the corner of Bloor and St. George Streets in Toronto. Over 75 years later, a plaque was affixed to its face by Heritage Toronto reading, “Designed in a Georgian-influenced style by Marani, Lawson and Paisley, Architects, it exhibits high-quality materials and craftsmanship, particularly in its stone detailing and main lobby.”
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commissions since completion. The project received several awards for architectural excellence including in 2014 a RAIC Governor
General’s Medal in Architecture, the highest architectural recognition in Canada. In 2014, Tyler Sharp received the RAIC’s Young Architect Award for his personal work and contributions to the studio’s portfolio.
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In the 1940s, all three partners left the practice to support the war. Afterwards Lawson stepped down and the practice became Marani & Morris. Following the war, the studio began to adopt
Modernism into its designs. The Bank of Canada building at 250 University Avenue in Toronto, completed in
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studio specializing in civic buildings. Founded in 1919, it is one of Canada’s oldest continuing architectural practices with a portfolio spanning mid-century corporate headquarters to contemporary public buildings. Recent work includes corporate headquarters, embassies and chanceries, industrial
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In 2018 RDHA received the
Architectural Firm Award from the RAIC which recognizes a firm's achievements for its quality of architecture, its service to its clients, its innovations in practice, contributions to architectural education and to professional institutions and associations and public
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Sharp’s first project at RDH Architects, the renovation of the historic Bloor/Gladstone
District Library in 2010, marked a significant turning point for the reputation of the firm. “A contemporary update and expansion of a 1913 library building”, the project has led to many more public library
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The practice was founded by
Ferdinand Marani in Toronto in 1919. At the time Marani frequented the Diet Kitchen Tea Room at 72 Bloor Street West, which was a gathering place for young architects such as John M. Lyle, Alvan Mathers, Eric Haldenby, Eric Arthur and others who sought to “raise
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Miller’s first project with RDHA, the
Newmarket Operations Centre, was completed in 2011. The project also received a RAIC Governor General’s Medal in Architecture among numerous awards, proving that this generally overlooked industrial building type can demonstrate excellent design.
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headquarters at King and
University Streets. A 1932 article published in Construction described the seven-storey Art Deco building as “an edifice of real distinction, its simplicity of design and reversion to clean lines being somewhat in contrast to the earlier home of the company.”
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Rounthwaite, Dick & Hadley. During this period, the studio designed the new Toronto Courthouse (1966) and the Bank of Canada headquarters in Ottawa with architect Arthur Erickson (1979).
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