(Toronto) Canadian architect Eberhard Zeidler, whose work marks the landscape of many Canadian cities, has passed away.
News of his death was confirmed by the architectural firm that bore his name on Saturday.
Born in 1926 in Germany, he immigrated to Canada in 1954.
Eberhard Zeidler notably drew the plans for Ontario Place and the Eaton Center in Toronto and Canada Place in Vancouver.
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The Eaton Center in Toronto
In Montreal, his agency, Zeidler Architecture, designed the Bell Media tower downtown.
According to his firm, he drew the plans for more than 1000 buildings.
In a press release, the agency said it had designed the Eaton Center as “an interior street” and not as a simple shopping center.
“Eb combined a great technical skill with a humanistic sensibility,” the statement added. His work sought a balance between the practical forms and the emotional aspirations of the people who would occupy these spaces. ”
He had published an autobiography Buildings Cities Life, in 2013.