“Diamond Schmitt deeply understood our community’s dream to create a performing arts campus that promotes entertainment for our region, while also serving as an arts education hub and a cornerstone for downtown revitalization. The result is a beautiful, world-class space unlike anything in our area that will bring our community together and create a new destination for the arts in Lubbock.”

Tim Collins, Chairman of the Board of the Lubbock Entertainment and Performing Arts Association

An exquisite renovation that restores a classic train station and converts it into a gracious, public-facing home for Canada’s Senate.

“The design solution is rigorous and uncompromising, highly appropriate and smart. The lighting effects, while in other circumstances often gratuitous, here speak dynamically to the building’s character and use.”

Toronto Urban Design Awards

An urban research institute that inspires renowned scientists to find new collaborative ways to solve children’s health problems.

"The OPL-LAC Joint Facility will be a welcoming, beautiful and inclusive space; one where people gather, learn, discover, and explore their creativity.”

Councillor Tim Tierney, Chair, Ottawa Public Library Board

“Dreams sometimes do come true. It has been a dream of our musicians to have a great home, one in which we can make the best music possible for you, our public. Our collective wish is now being granted, and we are very grateful to all who have brought this project forward."

Jaap van Zweden, Music Director, New York Philharmonic

Revitalizing the home for performing arts in Canada by welcoming the city in, day and night.

“Today, we have a campus that is vibrant and exciting, an expression of the community’s needs and an example to others of how to produce a building at a value that far exceeds its actual baseline costs.”

Dr. Ron Burnett, President + Vice-Chancellor, EMERITUS

Enabling a growing university to launch an expanded campus and creating the context for its business, economics, and mathematical communities to do pioneering work.

“The result of the combined interior and exterior inventions is a new set of algorithms for how performance spaces should be considered, devised and executed."

Indesign (Australia), Vol. 29

“There is hardly a college today that isn’t rushing to build its own version of Papadakis.”

Philadelphia Inquirer