The Globe and Mail

Architects Diamond & Schmitt

Exaggerate the scale by a thousandfold -- otherwise, the frenzied tidying and last-minute daubing at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts this week were the same rituals ordinary folk perform before a housewarming. On Wednesday afternoon, four senior architects from the firm Diamond + Schmitt Architects were checking lights, monitoring finishes and examining seals on doors as the Canadian Opera Company prepared for its ribbon-cutting ceremony tomorrow . Jack Diamond, having inadvertently stepped into some caulking on the bottom step of the glass staircase, was down on his hands and knees polishing the maple floor to erase his solitary imprint.