Bartolotto 20th-anniversary bash, Toronto, 2019

(The following images and text were published in Canadian Interiors.) To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her eponymous architecture firm, Tania Bortolotto invited collaborators and clients to a festive cocktail party at Toronto’s Drake Hotel. CUTLINES: Hamid Vossoughi, senior principal, façade engineering specialist, building sciences, at WSP; Bortolotto’s Alex Horber, principal; and the eponymous Tania, president; and Farhad Hajkazemian, partner and interior designer at custom home builder Abond. Christopher McCormack and Mary Jane Finlayson, principals of their respective eponymous architecture firms; and Christian Bellini, principal at engineering firm Blackwell. Bortolotto’s Elaine Welsher, intern architect and Annette Faccin, accountant, Morris Faccin, manager, emergency management, Regional Municipality of York; and Luis Alvarez, intern architect, Bortolotto. Tanya Bortolotto addresses partygoers. Vanilla and chocolate birthday cakes. York University’s Patrick Saavedra, university architect and director of planning and architecture; Raymund Gonzales, planner/architect; and Katya Marshall, planner, planning and architectural design. Bortolotto’s Sara Miatello, architect; and Bijan Ghazizadeh, intern architect. Guy Zimmerman, heritage planner, city planning, City of Toronto; Ann McIlroy, principal at architecture firm Brook McIlroy; Dr. Robyn Stephans, clinical neuropsychologist; and Leo Makrimichalos, director, MC Architects. Stephen Teeple, principal of his eponymous architecture firm; and Anita Matusevics, creative director at architecture and visual communications firm Wonder. Jerry Lin, architect, Bortolotto; and Jason Halter, chief scientific officer, Wonder.