Page and Steele

Page and Steele was an architecture partnership created in 1926 by Forsey Pemberton B. Page (1885-1970) and Harland W. Steele in Toronto and now part of the IBI Group of architectural and engineering firms.

History

Forsey Page was born in Toronto in 1885 and served in the Canadian Army during World War I before becoming an architect.^[1] He retired after 1950 and died in 1970.^[2]

Harland W. Steele was born in Stouffville, Ontario in 1900 and graduated from architecture at the University of Toronto in 1925.^[3] He retired in 1970 and died in Toronto in 1996.^[4]

Projects

Page and Steele's projects cover the span from 1926 and 1970:^[5]

• Forest Hill Public School 1931-32
• Forest Hill North Preparatory School 1936
• Forest Hill Municipal Building 1945
• Wallberg Memorial Chemistry Building, University of Toronto 1946-1948
• Niagara Falls Collegiate and Vocational School 1948
• Page and Steele Head Office 1948-1948
• St. Joseph's Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School, Toronto 1960
• Wexford Collegiate Institute, Toronto 1964

Legacy

Most of Page and Steele's projects are in Toronto, but newer ones are under construction outside Canada^[6]

• Four Seasons Hotel Group Head Office, Toronto
• Benevenuto Place, Toronto
• O'Keefe Centre, Toronto
• Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Toronto
• Delta Hotel Toronto
• Air Canada Centre Expansion
• Colossus Vaughan
• Maple Leaf Square
• Empress Walk
• Shore Club, Jersey City NJ
• J.W. Marriott and Resort Hotel, Aqaba, Jordan
• Four Seasons Hotel Amman
• Four Seasons Hotel Prague
• Atrium on Bay
• Denison Armoury 1961, demolished 2003

In the 1950s the firm employed famed architect Peter Dickinson.

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