Exercise five: Michael Pham (Osgoode Hall)

1. The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, opened Cumberland & Storm’s Osgoode Hall on September 8, 1860. The Prince entered through the new main doors, was welcomed in the newly built atrium, and proceeded to the library where he danced the night away.

Osgoode Hall Library 1860

2. The Osgoode Hall drawings remained in Storm’s possession. At his passing in 1892, Edmund Burke, another well-known Toronto architect, took over Storm’s practice and inherited the drawings. Burke became the partner of J. C. B. Horwood in 1894, with whom he worked until his premature death in 1919.

Floor Plan, Sections and Elevations

Old Archive Drawings

Detail drawing

3. Jack Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc will be building the expansion of Osgoode hall building. The brainchild of Jack Diamond, a principal with Toronto’s Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc were the inspired mind behind the city’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and the York University Student Centre, for which he was presented with the Governor General’s Award for Architecture and the Award of Excellence from Canadian Architect.

Model of new Building