Buildings

Shaarey Zedek School

Address:1780 Grant Avenue (DEMOLISHED)
Constructed:1956
Other Work:1963 - addition
Architects:Green Blankstein Russell
Contractors:John Miller & Sons Ltd.

Design Characteristics

  • Rectangular building with a centre courtyard, two kindergarten classrooms, eight regular classrooms, a chapel, kitchen, and offices.
  • Reinforced concrete piles and caissons, and a reinforced concrete main floor
  • Wood roof on structural steel frame
  • Exterior was a curtain wall with some face brick