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Regent Park dance studio heralds culture of change

Arts to be at heart of redevelopment of troubled neighbourhood
CBC News 

A Toronto dance company opens its new home Tuesday in Regent Park — the neighbourhood with Canada's biggest social housing project.

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The Citadel opens in Toronto

TORONTO – A 100-year-old Salvation Army dispensary gets a new lease on life today as the home of the acclaimed contemporary dance troupe Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (CLC). The faded Salvation Army Citadel name is intact on the façade of the three-storey red brick building on Parliament Street. Inside, Diamond Schmitt Architects has designed performance, rehearsal and living space in support of the dancers’ commitment to community renewal.

The Toronto Star: Burlington Performing Arts Centre

The Star's Music Critic William Littler celebrates the new Burlington Performing Arts Centre as part of a cultural real estate boom in southern Ontario, with most new theatres designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects.

DIAMOND SCHMITT AMONG TOP 100 GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE FIRMS

The 2012 ranking of architecture firms compiled by the UK-based journal Building Design places Diamond Schmitt Architects among the top 100 companies. Based on survey results provided by 1,400 architecture practices, Diamond Schmitt registers 91st among the largest architecture firms in the world.

Putting the Arts at Centre Stage in Regent Park

The Globe and Mail looks at projects designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects that are revitalizing Toronto's Regent Park and focuses on the soon-to-open transformation of a former Salvation Army Citadel into a dance theatre as symbolic of emphasizing the arts to energize the neighbourhood.