Payne, who co-founded Kuwabara Payne
McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) in 1987, has designed many award
winning and landmark structures for the performing arts sector.
A
personal commitment to the performing arts has inspired
Payne to develop professional expertise in balancing technical requirements
with the
design of acoustically and visually superior performance
projects. These include the Stratford Festival Theatre Expansion, the
Roy Thomson Hall
Enhancement, the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and Sprague
Memorial Hall for Yale University.
Payne's work has garnered numerous
awards including the Governor General's Awards for Excellence
in Architecture for the Joseph S. Stauffer Library at Queen's University
in Kingston
and Woodsworth College at the University of Toronto,
a United States Institute for Theatre Technology Architecture Award
for Sprague Memorial
Hall, and the 2004 Canadian Interiors Best of Canada
Award for the Lexus Lounge in Roy Thomson Hall.
In total, KPMB projects
have received
more than 70 awards recognizing design excellence, including
nine Governor General's Awards for Architecture - Canada's
most prestigious architecture
award, and was named 2005 Firm of the Year Award by the
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
KPMB has repeatedly
devoted itself to creating architecture that supports
the urban condition as well as to the design
of spatial programs and interior space that respond to
the functional needs and long term objectives of clients
and users. In addition to
the Young Centre project, KPMB's contribution to the architecture
of Toronto includes the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning for
the Royal Conservatory of Music, the Celia Franca Dance Training Centre
for the National Ballet School, the Gardiner Museum for Ceramic Art,
and Festival Centre for the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
A Partnership of Corporations
Bruce Kuwabara
Thomas
Payne
Marianne
McKenna
Shirley Blumberg
Senior Associates
Christopher Couse
Luigi LaRocca
Associates
John Allen
Andrew Dyke
Mitchell Hall
David
Jesson
Goran Milosevic
Robert Sims
Judith Taylor
322 King St. West,
3rd Floor, Toronto, Canada M5V 1J2
tel.
416-977-5104
fax. 416-598-9840
kpmb@kpmbarchitects.com
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