Teknion Toronto Best of Canada party, 2016

The following images and text were published in the Scene section of Canadian Interiors. The Collaboration Hub, Teknion’s sleek Michael Vanderbyl-designed downtown showroom located steps from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Bremner Boulevard, was the luxurious setting for the Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Awards and the Canadian Architect Awards party following the awards presentation at the Keilhauer Keynote Theatre on the IIDEX show floor. CUTLINES: Teknion’s David Feldberg, president and CEO, and Susan Hahn, Western regional VP. Giannone Petricone Associates’s Kevin Martin, associate; and Pina Petricone, architect and principal, flank architect Emily Dovbniak, intermediate designer, Leckie Studio Architecture + Design; Bryan Chartier, director of interior design, Diamond Schmitt Architects; and David Rezmovitz, director, project management, Knightstone Capital Management. Daniel McNeil, heritage architect, Kearns Mancini Architects; Irish architect Róisín Heneghan; and the Canadian Canoe Museum’s Carolyn Hyslop, general manager, and Richard Tucker, project director. Heneghan, who gave a keynote address at IIDEX, won the competition (along with Kearns Mancini) to design the new home of the Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ont. Richard Chow, architect and partner at GH3, shares a drink with Canadian Architect editor Elsa Lam. Marilina Cianci, intern architect at Provencher Roy Associates Architects, Montreal; architect Shirley Gagnon of Gagnon Letellier Cyr Ricard Matthieu Associates Architects, Quebec City; Jean-François Julien, intern architect, Taylor Hazell Architects; and Julien Beauchamp, master’s of architecture student at Laval University. Interior designers and Burdifilek partners Diego Burdi and Paul Filek flank Doron Minehard, associate architect at Hariri Pontarini Architects. Interior designer Dolores Pian, principal, Spaces Custom Interiors, and architectural photographer Francis Fougere. Dubbledam Architecture + Design’s Kevin McIntosh, business director, and principal, Heather Dubbledam, flank architect Sara Viarengo Cleva, president at Milan, Italy-based architecture firm EC & Co.; and LightForm president and founder Richard Assaly. EC & Co. architect and partner Enrico Glauco Cleva; Peter Sobchak, editor of Building and Canadian Interiors; and Laura Moffatt, manager of publishing operations at IQ Business Media, whose properties include the two magazines. Anne McCance, designer at AM Homes & Studio and sales rep at realtor Johnston & Daniel; Mara Del Bianco, director, business development and marketing at lighting designers Lightemotion; and Steve Keilhauer, VP product development, Keilhauer. Teknion’s Scott Deugo, chief sales and sustainability officer; David Patterson, president, Canadian sales; and Pamela Mason, director, Canadian marketing; with Canadian Interiors publisher Martin Spreer.