The Globe and Mail

Canada came within a hair's breadth of not having such landmarks as the Toronto Eaton Centre, Ontario Place and Queen's Quay Terminal on the city's waterfront, McMaster University Health Sciences Centre in Hamilton, Place Montreal Trust in Montreal and Canada Place in Vancouver. Nor could Canada have called one of its own the driving force behind the architecture firms that have designed hundreds of often award-winning buildings over the past half century. It was a stroke of luck that brought Eberhard Zeidler to this country.