John Andrews (1933–2022) was an Australian architect, described as Australia's first internationally recognised architect, with acclaimed buildings in Australia, Canada and the United States. Born in Sydney, he graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and studied at Harvard under Sigfried Giedion and José Luis Sert. He worked for John B. Parkin Associates near Toronto, taught at the University of Toronto from 1962 to 1970 and founded John Andrews Architects in Toronto in 1962, expanding to Sydney in 1973. He received the RAIA Gold Medal in 1980.
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Scarborough College (Andrews Building) in Toronto (1964), the oldest building on the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, is a megalithic brutalist structure of exposed concrete; its two wings meet at a central atrium, the Meeting Place, under a coffered concrete skylight. His office was part of the team for the CN Tower (1976), the 553-metre Toronto communications tower that was the world's tallest free-standing structure from 1975 to 2007. The Cameron Offices in Canberra (1976), government offices in a brutalist structuralist style built from 1970, were partly demolished in 2007–08.
