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Empowering Architecture
At Kearns Mancini Architects, we bring our experience, design skills and technical expertise to create spaces that delight and transform learning, living, working, care and hospitality facilities. We create inspired, iconic architectural visions by clearly identifying our clients’ needs and aspirations, as well as their cultural and market values. We seek out and drive the innate transformative qualities of architecture in a way that will inspire and empower our clients and their communities.
Collectively, we are constantly evolving our culture, technologies and socio-economic systems. Accordingly, the architectural environment must change and adapt. We are agents of change and through our studied processes and humble creativity, we strive for change which intelligently enhances our lives, our impact on each other and through sustainable practices such as Passive House we support and defend the planets ecology for future generations.
Projects
We combine our design and technical expertise with real-world experience and a passion to bring colour, form, life, and transparency to all of our projects. We believe in the humility and directness, and, based on our track-record with past clients, we passionately deliver successful transformative projects.
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Passive House
Passive House is ingrained in our methodology. It is part of who we are. With every project that comes through our door, we see an opportunity to deploy our Passive House expertise.
Awards
We are honoured to have received numerous awards that recognize our commitment to create spaces that will empower our clients. Here are a few…
Don Mount Court, Rivertowne
Toronto Home Builder Awards Best Low Rise Project Of The Year
2007
Ireland Park, Toronto
Ontario Masonry Design Awards | Artistic / Commemorative Design Award
2014
UTM W.G Davis Building, Toronto
Interior Design Best of Year Awards Award of Honour
2011
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Phase 1A
Toronto Architecture/Urban Design Awards Honourable Mention
2005
Testimonials
At Kearns Mancini Architects we see our clients as partners. We always aim to develop a collaborative approach as we create architecture together as a unified team. Here is what some of our long-standing clients say about us:
Dr. Gerd Hauck
Director of the REAL Institute
Andrew Arifuzzaman
University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Chief Administrative Officer
Manon Asselin
Official Juror, Canadian Architect 2016 Awards of Excellence
Bruce Kuwabara
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Dr. Robert E. Zee
Director, Space Flight Laboratory (University of Toronto Insitute of Aerospace Studies)
K.J. Cochrane
Chief Architect, TCDSB
Our Clients
Meet the Team
At Kearns Mancini, our team becomes a part of your team.
Jonathan is the Principal-in-Charge and CEO of Kearns Mancini Architects Inc. Born in Ireland, he graduated from the National University School of Architecture in 1974. As the firm’s creative leader, Jonathan has led the firm’s major institutional, community, and award-winning projects including the Canadian Canoe Museum, Fort York Visitor Centre, Senator O’Connor Estate and Coach House, and Ireland Park. In addition to his strong leadership and motivational skills, Jonathan approaches each project with a holistic vision that embraces social, cultural, contextual, functional, economic, and political realities. This allows him to deliver results that are an enlightened architectural form with remarkable attention to detail. Jonathan is also a passionate advocate of the Passive House Standard, the world’s leading standard in energy efficient construction, as well as architecture that integrates seamlessly with its surroundings.
Donna is a Senior Principal at KMAI and has been with the firm for over 30 years. Donna has a wide range of experience but possesses particular expertise in corporate workspace and retail banking. In 2011, KMAI was appointed Chief Consultant for the Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Donna as lead architect. She oversees all aspects of the design and construction of the BMO’s retail bank branches and corporate workspaces. Donna’s talent has allowed her to be immensely successful in executing a cohesive design vision on a project with such varied requirements and unique challenges.
Peter has been with KMAI for 30+ years after graduating from the University of Toronto. He has acted as design project architect for several of the firm’s notable projects including Deloitte Head Office, RBC WaterPark Place III, and George Brown College’s Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts and The Chefs’ House Restaurant. Peter’s holistic design approach allows him to develop creative and innovative ways to resolve client programming needs through unique architectural expression. His disciplined and realistic approach to detailing has enabled him to deliver projects within budgetary and schedule constraints without compromising design intent or the programmatic needs of the end users.
Careers
At KMAI we strive to support our employees and encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most importantly, we want our team to love what they do.
We’re always looking for talented, creative and passionate people to join our team. Send us your CV via our LinkedIn page.
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