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| Keywords: architecture outdoor building Natural Color QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE, West Georgia and Hamilton Streets, Vancouver, BC. Built 1957-59, 1962. Architect: Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud, and Sise. "Envisioning a concert hall that would form the nucleus of a multi-block civic centre in this fringe area of downtown, the city held an open competition in 1954 that attracted sixty-two entrants. The winners from Montreal, associated here for the first time, later rose to become one of Canada's leading firms of architects. Their design influenced a series of later theatre complexes across North America. The present buildings comprise a 2,835-seat concert hall, a 647-seat playhouse and recital hall (added in 1962), underground parking, a restaurant, and a public plaza. A glass and aluminum curtain wall that attempts 'to capture the timeless quality of civic building' encloses the spacious lobbies and contrasts with the solid superstructures of textured concrete. The interior is finished with warmer materials, primarily British Columbia woods." [From 'Exploring Vancouver' by Harold Kalman (University of British Columbia Press, 1974)] Natural Color QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE, West Georgia and Hamilton Streets, Vancouver, BC. Built 1957-59, 1962. Architect: Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud, and Sise. "Envisioning a concert hall that would form the nucleus of a multi-block civic centre in this fringe area of downtown, the city held an open competition in 1954 that attracted sixty-two entrants. The winners from Montreal, associated here for the first time, later rose to become one of Canada's leading firms of architects. Their design influenced a series of later theatre complexes across North America. The present buildings comprise a 2,835-seat concert hall, a 647-seat playhouse and recital hall (added in 1962), underground parking, a restaurant, and a public plaza. A glass and aluminum curtain wall that attempts 'to capture the timeless quality of civic building' encloses the spacious lobbies and contrasts with the solid superstructures of textured concrete. The interior is finished with warmer materials, primarily British Columbia woods." [From 'Exploring Vancouver' by Harold Kalman (University of British Columbia Press, 1974)] | ||||
