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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Engineers eventually had to saw the building in two - the fix for a design decision made in 1962. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre at 630 Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver opened on 5 July 1959 as a 2,800-seat opera and ballet hall, the winning entry of an international design competition and the first project of the Montreal partnership of Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud and Sise - the firm that went on to build Place des Arts and the National Arts Centre. Queen Elizabeth I...