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THE RED LANTERN

Allderdice, Jacob

The Canadian Architect, 2011-06, Vol.56 (6), p.24

Toronto: IQ Business Media

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  • Título:
    THE RED LANTERN
  • Autor: Allderdice, Jacob
  • Assuntos: Architects ; Architecture ; Art galleries & museums ; Bible ; Buildings ; Committees ; Design ; Modern art ; Registration ; University buildings ; University colleges
  • É parte de: The Canadian Architect, 2011-06, Vol.56 (6), p.24
  • Descrição: A colleague of [Peter Larisey]'s, professor Peter Warrian, had the idea of funding a lecture series in Larisey's name. Warrian is a philanthropist, engineer and economist who in 1999 sold a computer application he'd developed to Microsoft. Today he runs the Lupina Foundation, which gives away close to $1 million every year. He is taken with "Larisey's hypothesis" that the Church has been able to embrace architects "in ways it has not been able to always accept artists." Warrian created a lecture committee including artist Sarah Hall, writer John Bentley Mays, Larisey and others. Ultimately the committee chose [Mario. Botta] to launch the series and to celebrate the completion of Regis College's new digs. The Christie mansion is a "listed" Toronto heritage building, and the University paid careful attention to the [Larkin] design. A committee that included Toronto architects Brigitte Shim and Bruce Kuwabara praised it, according to [Kevin Weiss], for its "well-behaved" connection to the old building. "It's Victorian in a way," says Weiss- it has to mediate between historic eras, and pays careful attention to the discovery of governing lines between the 1890s mansion and the 1950s hall. The new main entry is up a shallow three - step climb or a ramp from Wellesley Street. Beneath a zinc-panelled fascia, signage announces REGIS COLLEGE in sans-serif letters-formed from a single piece of steel. Low- iron glass used in this wall is exceptionally clear, allowing visi bility through the "lantern" to the glazed back door at the north. Is there a deeper motive in bringing Mario Botta to Regis College? Is there a project on offer in Toronto? Larisey welcomes this question. "It's in the air. People talk of a new Catholic cathedral in town. The existing cathedral [St. Michael's] is in terrible shape. It takes millions just to hold it up." Lecture committee member Sarah Hall elaborates: "There are a number of us who would love to have Botta build something in Toronto. And Toronto needs a new cathedral." Peter Warrian adds: "Toronto is a major site of Modernist architecture: think Mies van der Rohe. In his diary, [Mies] said his one regret was that he never got a commission to do a cathedral. I have had the idea of running a juried competition for architecture students on what kind of cathedral he would have designed for Toronto. The purpose would not be to decide about St. Michael's Cathedral; that is entirely the jurisdiction of the diocese- but to raise the profile of the dialogue between architecture and spiritual values."
  • Editor: Toronto: IQ Business Media
  • Idioma: Inglês
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