The Globe and Mail

Of British-born architect Peter Dickinson's 36 years on earth, only the last eleven (1950-1961) were lived in Toronto. But if his tenure here was short, the prolific young Modernist stayed in town quite long enough to scatter some wonderful architectural sparkle on Toronto's matronly bosom. He gave us the Hummingbird Centre (formerly the O'Keefe), with its romantic sweep of surfaces and a canopy cantilevered rakishly toward Front Street. He did the stylish Inn on the Park. And he designed Bathurst Street's Beth Tzedec Synagogue, surely Toronto's most beautiful house of prayer executed in the Modern manner.