Stephen Van Egmond Irwin RAIC,

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, OAA,

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(March 10, 1939 – March 5, 2019) was a Canadian architect and "partner emeritus" of

Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners Shore Tilbe Perkins+Will, formerly Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners (STIP), is a Canadian architecture firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Since its founding as Shore and Moffat in 1945, and later as Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners, the firm has completed n ...

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Biography

Irwin trained at the

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, where he was a member of the

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fraternity. He later studied at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, where he received MArch. In 1963 he received the

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in Architecture. Irwin began his design career in 1962 in Sweden, for Gronwall-Hirsch, and worked for one year in London, England, for Hugh Casson, Conder & Partners. He returned to Canada in 1965, where he joined Shore & Moffat (now Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners). He was a partner of the firm from 1971. Irwin died on March 5, 2019.

Buildings

* Bioscience Complex, Queen's University,

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* Central Library,

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, Ontario *

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Research Centre, Mississauga, Ontario *

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Purdy's Wharf Purdy's Wharf is an office complex in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Built over the water at the edge of Halifax Harbour and resting on pilings, it consists of two office towers, and a smaller office structure called Purdy's Landing. The comple ...

office complex, Halifax,

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References

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Shore Tilbe Irwin and Partners
1939 births 2019 deaths Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni University of Toronto alumni Canadian architects Prix de Rome (Britain) winners {{Canada-architect-stub