The Globe and Mail

Patients enjoying the early June weather almost surely noticed the older gentleman as he strolled the grounds of the former Riverdale Hospital -- now known as Bridgepoint Health -- pausing occasionally to admire its handsome features. With a sleek white ponytail anchoring his hawk-like nose, he squinted up at the zigzagging curtain wall wrapping around the macaroni-shaped building and noted with approval that the original aluminum window sashes and spandrel panels of "mink brown" and "sky grey" are still quite serviceable. As the man walked into the shade under the colourful "mushroom" canopies, however, only one wheelchair-bound fellow thought to politely inquire as to what he was looking at with such interest. Howard Chapman, a soft-spoken, 87-year-old architect, answered matter-of-factly and with a touch of humility that he was one of the two men responsible for the hospital's creation more than four decades ago.