Toronto Star

In an age obsessed with celebrity architects, it's worth remembering that the best aren't always the most famous. The designers of the new Bloorview Kids Rehab, Montgomery Sisam and Stantec of Toronto, are hardly household names, but together they have produced one of the finest examples of contemporary architecture in this city. The $101 million facility, on Kilgour Rd. east of Bayview Ave., north of Eglinton Ave., is a deeply moving reminder of the sheer power of design to make the world a better place. That may sound hopelessly maudlin, but the fact is that with Bloorview, the architects involved, especially design principal Terry Montgomery and project architect Chris Klemt, have created something truly remarkable, namely a building that meets all its functional requirements and much, much, more. The message — and it can be read in every detail — is that the disabled lead real lives and belong in the real world.