Toronto Society of Architects Bash at the Barns

(Images and text published in Canadian Interiors Scene section.) The Toronto Society of Architects Bash holds its Christmas party in a building that exemplifies design excellence in the city. 2019’s event took place at Artscape Wychwood Barns, an adaptive-reuse project of an abandoned century-old streetcar maintenance facility that was slated for demolition. CUTLINES: From construction firm Boszko & Verity: Diane Gropp, controller; Carmen Lam, office assistant; Therese Baron, marketing manager; and Magdalena Turbak, project co-ordinator. RJC Engineers’s Daniel Sokolowski, design engineer, structural engineering; and Jen Watson, associate; Gianni Meogrossi, associate, Adamson Associates Architects; and architectural consultant Ross Carter-Wingrove. Elizabeth Vandertuin and Howard Rideout of their eponymous architecture firms. Owen Peat of his self-named architecture firm; Lean Kim, architect, Kilogram Studio; Judah Mulalu, principal, Ten-2-Four Architecture; Tura Cousins Wilson, architect, Diamond Schmitt; and Bill Lobb of his eponymous architecture firm. Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect’s Sarah McMurtry, intern architect; Liam Van Steekelenburg, intern; and the eponymous Barbora. Ivan Franko, Paula Bowley and Susan Speigel of their respective eponymous architecture firms; and Lloyd Alter, design editor of TreeHugger and adjunct professor teaching sustainable design at Ryerson University School of Interior Design. Leslie Jen, design journalist and communications consultant; and Martin Spreer, publisher, Canadian Interiors. Lilly-Morgane Lecointe, project architect, and Callum Lewis-Laverty, architect, RAW Design; and Megan Torza, partner at architecture firm DTAH and TSA vice chair. Eva Chau, project manager, Aspect Structural Engineers; Carlos de Oliveira, president and CEO, Castconnex, which makes cast-steel components for building and bridge structures; Renée Mackay-Lyons, associate, Blackwell. The open bar; the crowd from the second-storey overlook.