Zeidler Architecture

31  25

© Zeider Roberts Partnership / Architects
L’hôpital pour enfants malades
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture hospitalière et de protection sociale
Hôpitaux pour enfants

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1986Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

(1)

Addition de l’hôpital pour enfants malades – Toronto

Marco L. Polo

« Comme beaucoup d’architectes, j’ai visité une grande variété de bâtiments, étudié des dessins et des photographies de beaucoup d’autres, et j’ai fait ma part de pèlerinages vers des bâtiments et des sites emblématiques. En comparaison, les bâtiments dont nous faisons l’expérience en tant qu’utilisateurs plutôt qu’en tant que visiteurs éduqués sont très peu nombreux, et ces deux perspectives peuvent être radicalement différentes.

Lorsque l’annexe de l’hôpital pour enfants malades de Toronto conçue par Zeidler Roberts Partnership/Architects (aujourd’hui Zeidler Architecture) a ouvert ses portes en 1993, les critiques architecturales du projet ont noté que le plan innovant de l’atrium avait clairement réussi au niveau de l’organisation du bâtiment, de l’orientation, de la circulation et de la sensibilité aux besoins des patients, mais que son expression et ses détails ressemblaient de manière frappante à ce type de bâtiment tant décrié qu’est le centre commercial. Le fait que le même cabinet ait également conçu le Centre Eaton, situé à proximité, n’a fait que souligner cette association.

Mes premières impressions du projet, formées sur la base de quelques brèves visites, étaient conformes à ces critiques. Trois ans plus tard, j’ai découvert le bâtiment sous un angle différent. Des complications à la naissance ont obligé notre fille à passer les premiers jours de sa vie au Sick Kids’. Lorsqu’elle est sortie de l’hôpital avec un certificat de bonne santé, nous avions passé trois jours à l’hôpital, et ma relation avec le bâtiment s’est transformée, passant du statut de critique d’architecture à celui d’utilisateur totalement immergé.

En règle générale, nous découvrons l’architecture des soins de santé dans des moments de grande vulnérabilité et de stress émotionnel. Du point de vue des parents préoccupés par la santé de leur enfant, la question de savoir si l’architecture de l’hôpital ressemblait à celle d’un centre commercial est tombée dans l’oubli. À un autre niveau, cependant, l’architecture de l’hôpital Sick Kids a apporté d’importants avantages. Bien que coincés dans une chambre d’hôpital pendant trois jours, nous n’étions qu’à quelques pas des espaces généreux et de la lumière naturelle de l’atrium, ce qui a beaucoup contribué à atténuer la claustrophobie associée à l’enfermement. Les stratégies architecturales plus larges du bâtiment, à savoir l’organisation spatiale, l’apport de lumière naturelle et la facilité d’orientation, ont eu un impact positif significatif sur notre expérience.

Cela ne veut pas dire que l’expression et les détails ne sont pas importants. Ils sont fondamentaux pour la contribution d’un bâtiment à la culture architecturale et constituent une composante importante du domaine public ; en tant que tels, ils doivent faire partie de toute critique sérieuse. Cependant, du point de vue de l’utilisateur, les relations spatiales, l’échelle, les proportions et l’accès à la lumière du jour peuvent jouer un rôle plus important dans le développement d’une architecture réussie et adaptée à l’utilisateur. » (Livret Expériences Vécues Positives de la Qualité dans l’Environnement Bâti 2023, p.123).

Lien Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Hospital+for+Sick+Children/@43.6576007,-79.3865011,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x882b34c9b2253cc9:0xd626f96dbbd306cf!8m2!3d43.6576007!4d-79.3865011!16zL20vMDJyOXlx?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

© Foster + Partners
The Bow
 
Architecture commerciale fiscale et de bureaux
Édifices d’administration et bureaux

Foster + Partners

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Rachel Sangree
Columbus Centre of Marine Research and Exploration
Baltimore, Maryland, États-Unis 
Architecture scolaire
Campus et pavillons universitaires

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Zeidler Roberts Partnership
Queen’s Quay Terminal
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture résidentielle
Usage mixte

Zeidler Architecture

Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects

(3)

2010Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
Landmark Designation Award
1989Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects

Award of Excellence
Architectural Excellence

Eaton Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture commerciale fiscale et de bureaux
Commerces de détail et centres commerciaux

Zeidler Architecture

Bregman + Hamann Architects

(2)

© Zeidler Partnership Architects
Ontario Place – Cinesphere and Pods
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture culturelle
Auditoriums & cinémas

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Zeidler Architecture
Taza Water Reservoir at Taza Park Phase 1
Tsuut’ina Nation, Alberta, Canada
Infrastructure et ingénierie
Infrastructures de production énergétique

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2020Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Awards of Excellence

© Lorne Bridgman
Ryerson Student Learning Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture scolaire
Campus et pavillons universitaires

Snøhetta

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2011Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Snøhetta

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Partnership Architects
GO Roof, Union Station
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Infrastructure et ingénierie
Gares et structures ferroviaires

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2012Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Roberts Partnership/Architects
Portcullis
Londre, Londre, Royaume-Uni 
Architecture de sports et de loisirs
Centres sportifs

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1991Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects
Media Park
Cologne, Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, Allemagne 
Architecture commerciale fiscale et de bureaux
Édifices d’administration et bureaux

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1988Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Partnership Architects
Trinity Square Development
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture de paysage design urbain et urbanisme
Espaces publics, rues et squares

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1977Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Craig, Zeidler & Strong
Ontario Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture de paysage design urbain et urbanisme
Pavillons, installations et structures temporaires

Craig, Zeidler and Strong

Zeidler Architecture

(2)

1999Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
25 Year Award
1969Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Craig, Zeidler and Strong

Award

© Zeidler
Assuta Medical Centre
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israël 
Architecture hospitalière et de protection sociale
Hôpitaux généraux

M. Brestovisky Architects & Urban Design

Moore Architects

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Zeidler Architecture
McMaster University Health Sciences Centre
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture scolaire
Centres de recherche & laboratoires

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2014Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
Landmark Designation Award

© Lumbers Photography
Belleville Public Library and John M. Parrott Art Galleries
Belleville, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture culturelle
Bibliothèques publiques et archives

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2009Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
Design Excellence

© Zeidler Architecture
Toronto Eaton Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture commerciale fiscale et de bureaux
Commerces de détail et centres commerciaux

Zeidler Architecture

Bregman + Hamann Architects

(1)

2008Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Bregman + Hamann Architects

Award
Landmark Designation Award

© Kevin Steele
Gladstone Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture résidentielle
Hôtels et auberges

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2006Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Commercial B: (greater than $5 million) – Honourable Mention
Architectural Excellence

© Ferris + Associates Inc.
National Trade Centre, Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture commerciale fiscale et de bureaux
Commerces de détail et centres commerciaux

Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects Engineers

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1999Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects Engineers

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence
Architectural Excellence

© Zeidler Architecture
Toronto Eaton Centre Pedestrian Bridge
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Infrastructure et ingénierie
Ponts, viaducs et tunnels

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2019Ontario Steel Design Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence
Converted to or Innovated Using Steel

© Zeidler Architecture ; WilkinsonEyre
CF Toronto Eaton Centre Bridge
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Infrastructure et ingénierie
Ponts, viaducs et tunnels

Zeidler Architecture

WilkinsonEyre

(2)

© Doublespace photography
Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
 
Architecture culturelle
Bibliothèques publiques et archives

Zeidler Partnership Architects

Snøhetta

Zeidler Architecture

Ferris + Associates Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group

(2)

CIBC Commerce Court Renewal
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Architecture commerciale fiscale et de bureaux
Édifices d’administration et bureaux

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1995Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Merit
Award of Merit

31  25

© Zeider Roberts Partnership / Architects
L’hôpital pour enfants malades
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Health and welfare facilities
Youth hospitals

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1986Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

(1)

Addition to the Hospital for Sick Children – Toronto

Marco L. Polo

Like many architects, I’ve visited a wide variety of buildings, studied drawings and photographs of many more, and made my share of pilgrimages to iconic buildings and sites. By comparison, the buildings we experience as users rather than educated visitors are precious few, and these two perspectives can be dramatically different.

When the addition to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children designed by Zeidler Roberts Partnership/Architects (now Zeidler Architecture) opened in 1993, architectural reviews of the project noted that the innovative atrium scheme clearly succeeded at the level of building organization, orientation, circulation and sensitivity to patient needs, but its expression and detailing bore a striking resemblance to that much-maligned building type, the shopping mall. The fact that the same firm had also designed the nearby Eaton Centre only underscored this association.

My initial impressions of the project, formed on the basis of a few brief visits, were consistent with these critiques. Three years later, I experienced the building in a different capacity. Complications at birth required that our daughter spend the first few days of her life at Sick Kids’. By the time she was released with a clean bill of health, we had spent three days in the hospital, and my relationship to the building transformed from that of architecture critic to a fully-immersed user.

Typically, we encounter the architecture of health care at times of great vulnerability and emotional stress. From the point of view of parents consumed with worry over their child’s health, the question of whether the hospital’s detailing resembled that of a mall faded into obscurity. On another level, however, the architecture of Sick Kids’ yielded important benefits. Although stuck in a hospital room for three days, we were only a few steps away from the generous spaces and natural daylight in the atrium, which did much to alleviate the claustrophobia associated with confinement. The building’s larger architectural strategies of spatial organization, provision of daylight and ease of orientation had a significant positive impact on our experience.

None of this is to suggest that expression and detail aren’t important. They are fundamental to a building’s contribution to architectural culture and constitute an important component of the public realm; as such they must be part of any serious critique. However, from a user’s perspective, spatial relationships, scale, proportion and access to daylight may play a more important role in the development of successful, user-responsive architecture. » (Booklet Positive Lived Experiences of Quality in the Built Environment 2023, p.125).

Google map link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Hospital+for+Sick+Children/@43.6573692,-79.3894775,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x882b34c9b2253cc9:0xd626f96dbbd306cf!8m2!3d43.6573653!4d-79.3869026!16zL20vMDJyOXlx

© Foster + Partners
The Bow
 
Commercial financial and offices
Administration and office buildings

Foster + Partners

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Rachel Sangree
Columbus Centre of Marine Research and Exploration
Baltimore, Maryland, United States 
Educational architecture
University buildings and campuses

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Zeidler Roberts Partnership
Queen’s Quay Terminal
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Residential architecture
Mixed-use

Zeidler Architecture

Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects

(3)

2010Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
Landmark Designation Award
1989Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects

Award of Excellence
Architectural Excellence

Eaton Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Commercial financial and offices
Retail and shopping centers

Zeidler Architecture

Bregman + Hamann Architects

(2)

© Zeidler Partnership Architects
Ontario Place – Cinesphere and Pods
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Cultural architecture
Auditoriums and cinemas

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Zeidler Architecture
Taza Water Reservoir at Taza Park Phase 1
Tsuut’ina Nation, Alberta, Canada
Infrastructure and civil engineering
Energy production facilities

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2020Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Awards of Excellence

© Lorne Bridgman
Ryerson Student Learning Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Educational architecture
University buildings and campuses

Snøhetta

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2011Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Snøhetta

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Partnership Architects
GO Roof, Union Station
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Infrastructure and civil engineering
Train stations and railway structures

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2012Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Roberts Partnership/Architects
Portcullis
London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain 
Architecture of sports and leisure
Sports facilities

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1991Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects
Media Park
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 
Commercial financial and offices
Administration and office buildings

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1988Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Zeidler Partnership Architects
Trinity Square Development
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Landscape urban design and planning
Public spaces, streets and squares

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1977Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence

© Craig, Zeidler & Strong
Ontario Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Landscape urban design and planning
Pavilions, installations and temporary structures

Craig, Zeidler and Strong

Zeidler Architecture

(2)

1999Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
25 Year Award
1969Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence

Craig, Zeidler and Strong

Award

© Zeidler
Assuta Medical Centre
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel 
Health and welfare facilities
General hospitals

M. Brestovisky Architects & Urban Design

Moore Architects

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

© Zeidler Architecture
McMaster University Health Sciences Centre
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 
Educational architecture
Research centers and laboratories

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2014Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
Landmark Designation Award

© Lumbers Photography
Belleville Public Library and John M. Parrott Art Galleries
Belleville, Ontario, Canada 
Cultural architecture
Public libraries and archives

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2009Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award
Design Excellence

© Zeidler Architecture
Toronto Eaton Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Commercial financial and offices
Retail and shopping centers

Zeidler Architecture

Bregman + Hamann Architects

(1)

2008Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Bregman + Hamann Architects

Award
Landmark Designation Award

© Kevin Steele
Gladstone Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Residential architecture
Hotels and hostels

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2006Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Commercial B: (greater than $5 million) – Honourable Mention
Architectural Excellence

© Ferris + Associates Inc.
National Trade Centre, Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Commercial financial and offices
Retail and shopping centers

Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects Engineers

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1999Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects Engineers

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence
Architectural Excellence

© Zeidler Architecture
Toronto Eaton Centre Pedestrian Bridge
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Infrastructure and civil engineering
Bridges, overpasses and tunnels

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

2019Ontario Steel Design Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Excellence
Converted to or Innovated Using Steel

© Zeidler Architecture ; WilkinsonEyre
CF Toronto Eaton Centre Bridge
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Infrastructure and civil engineering
Bridges, overpasses and tunnels

Zeidler Architecture

WilkinsonEyre

(2)

© Doublespace photography
Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
 
Cultural architecture
Public libraries and archives

Zeidler Partnership Architects

Snøhetta

Zeidler Architecture

Ferris + Associates Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group

(2)

CIBC Commerce Court Renewal
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Commercial financial and offices
Administration and office buildings

Zeidler Architecture

(1)

1995Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Zeidler Architecture

Award of Merit
Award of Merit