ARTIST | Siamak Hariri

Siamak Hariri is a Founding Partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects, a 130-person practice based in Toronto. His portfolio of nationally and internationally recognized buildings has won over 100 awards, including five Governor General’s Medals in Architecture, celebrated as one of Canada’s Artists who mattered most by the Globe and Mail, and with his Partner David Pontarini, the 2013 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Architectural Firm Award.

One of Siamak’s earliest HPA projects, the Canadian headquarters of McKinsey & Company, is the youngest building to receive City of Toronto heritage landmark designation. More recent public and private projects include the Bahá’i Temple of South America, the Tom Patterson Theatre at the Stratford Festival, and the Nicol Building for the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Siamak’s work embodies abiding commitment to architecture’s essentials and he brings to every creative project a profound interest in light, form, site, material, and craft.

Image provided by Hariri Pontarini Architects

Meet The Artists

Sasha Rogers

Sky Glabush

Shadi Toloui-Wallace

Otto Don Rogers

Carol Evans

Hooper Dunbar

Siamak Hariri

Shaughnessy Johnson

Paula Murray

Pancho Amenábar

Lisa Puzon

Roger Bansemer

The sculpture seen above – “Second Birth”—was created by Shaughnessy Johnson, 2010. Carved sandstone, 20x20x8 in

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