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Celebrated Canadian architect Jack Diamond of Toronto-based firm Diamond Schmitt has passed away at the age of 89.

Jack Diamond, one of the most significant and defining Canadian architects of his generation passed away Sunday afternoon, October 30, 2022.  He was one week shy of his 90th birthday.  Born in South Africa, educated in architecture at the University of Capetown and Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, Jack Diamond established his first […]

Celebrated Toronto architect Jack Diamond, whose vision shaped some of Toronto's most notable spaces, has died just shy of his 90th birthday, his firm announced Tuesday.

One of the most significant Canadian architects of his era is being remembered this week after news that Diamond Schmitt co-founder Abel Joseph “Jack” Diamond passed away this weekend in Toronto at the age of 89. Diamond was a mainstay on his adopted country’s architecture scene since first...