Peter Dickinson (architect)

For other people named Peter Dickinson, see Peter Dickinson (disambiguation).

The Hummingbird Centre was designed by Peter Dickinson . It was officially opened in 1960.

The Dickinson-designed apartment towers in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood being demolished as part of a revitalization project; the towers won a Massey Medal for Architecture in 1961. One tower will be preserved.

Peter Allgood Rastall Dickinson, (October 21, 1925 – October 15, 1961), was a British-born architect responsible for many modernist buildings in Toronto.

Born in London, UK, he studied architecture during World War II and served during 1944-1945. He came to Canada in 1949 to work for Wells Coates. He moved to Page and Steele in 1950 and later with his own firm Peter Dickinson and Associates. He died in Montreal, Quebec before the completion there of his tallest work, Tour CIBC.

Some of Dickinson's works:

• Continental Can Building, Toronto
• Benvenuto Apartments, Toronto
• Dickinson Tower, Toronto
• Westbury Hotel, Toronto
• Juvenile and Family Courts, Toronto
• Jesuit Seminary, Willowdale, (now Tyndale University College and Seminary)
• Ottawa Police Station, Ottawa
• 111 Richmond Street, Toronto
• York Mills Collegiate Institute, Toronto
• Inn on the Park, Toronto
• O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (later renamed Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, still later Sony Centre for the Performing Arts), Toronto
• Park Plaza Hotel (Toronto), Toronto
• Courtyard & Canopy, Park Plaza Hotel, Toronto
• Medical Building,, Toronto
• Lawrence Heights School, Toronto
• Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Toronto
• Church Street PS
• Four Seasons Motor Hotel, Toronto
• Canadian Red Cross, Toronto
• Queen Elizabeth Building

Ten Newest Buildings

• 365 Bay Street 12 floors 1962
• La Tour CIBC 45 floors 1962
• 4 King Street West 20 floors 1959
• 500 Avenue Road 13 floors 1958
• 55 Yonge Street 12 floors 1958
• 111 Richmond Street .. 15 floors 1956
• 561 Avenue Road 14 floors 1956
• Lord Simcoe Hotel 20 floors 1956
• Marriott Courtyard 16 floors 1956
• Four Seasons Motor Hotel at 415 Jarvis Street 1961 - sinced demolished

Dickinson's most famed design is the Hummingbird Centre in the downtown Toronto.

His legacy lives in the firm created by his former partners in Webb Zerafa Menkes Housden Partnership.

External links

• Pete Dickinson
• Modern Montreal Architecture
• Peter Allgood Rastall Dickinson