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3 February 2023
Hariri Pontarini Architects Presented With Top Architecture Award In Canada
Tom Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, Canada:

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Award for Tom Patterson Theatre by Hariri Pontarini Architects
February 3rd, 2023, Toronto ? At a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Siamak Hariri, founding partner with Hariri Pontarini Architects, received the Governor General?s Medal in Architecture for the new Tom Patterson Theatre at the Stratford Festival.

photo : Ann Baggley Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, presented 12 medals in all for the biennial awards program that celebrates outstanding design in recently completed projects by Canadian architects. The jury described the theatre as ?an exceptional cultural building; the nature of materials, organic forms and textures promotes sensory perception and contributes to the appreciation of the arts.?

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The theatre engages its riverside park setting with a sinuous veil of bronze mullioned curtain wall that flows in step with the river. Garden and river views dissolve the line between indoors and out in this LEED Gold registered design. The wood-lined interior of the 600-seat auditorium features an elo...