page_title: Clifford Wiens
section_title: Prince Albert City Hall (1984)
hierarchical_section_title: Clifford Wiens / Career / Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd., 1979–1986 / Prince Albert City Hall (1984)
caption_attribution_description: The Admin Building is three storeys high and houses a number of the university's administrative units.
context_page_description: Clifford Donald Wiens was a Canadian architect, designer, and author.
  The first two-thirds of his professional career spanned forty years, a diverse body of architectural work found throughout Saskatchewan including designs for schools and hospitals, chapels and churches, motel and apartment buildings, private residences, buildings for corporations and health spas, dairy creameries in Regina and Saskatoon, and a Trans-Canada Highway campground. He completed over one hundred projects.
  During the early phase of his career in the 1960s and 1970s, influenced by his relationship with the group of abstract painters known as the Regina Five as well as his own background in industrial design, Wiens actively sought out new ideas and innovations in architecture, interested in developing a style responsive to the prairie landscape and history, developing a reputation for "inventive" architectural and structural details and "simple but strong forms".
  Wiens achieved his greatest prominence after Expo 67, winning three Massey Award medals, Canada's top award for architecture, more than any other Saskatchewan architect, and two National Design Council of Canada Awards.
context_section_description: Another prominent work by Wiens is the postmodernist city hall in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, officially opened in October 1984 after two years of construction, replacing the heritage building now used as an Arts Centre. Located on the eastern part of Church Square, the city hall's primary building materials are Tyndall stone and brick, featuring a Tyndall stone façade with nested stone rectangles in its central doorway and window, a clock tower rising from its mid-point, which William P. Thompson suggests projects "judiciousness and dignity."
  A statue of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who practiced law in Prince Albert, has stood outside the city hall since 2003. The statue holds the Bill of Rights passed by Parliament in 1960.
caption: Atrium and central staircase, Administrative Building, University of Saskatchewan.
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