Who’s Who Teknion at the Brick Works Teknion hosted its biggest product unveiling of the year at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto’s Don Valley, showcasing products arising out of three new business partnerships: Teknion Studio, Teknion Textiles, and B&B Italia Project. The new ventures demonstrate Teknion’s commitment to the increasingly collaborative work styles in today’s office. 1
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1—Architect Rig Mugford, integrated designer, Zeidler Partnership Architects; interior designer Lisa Fulford-Roy, senior VP client strategy, strategic accounts and consulting, HOK; recently-retired Teknion A&D manager Sue Madsen; interior designer Jillian Warren, senior associate, Perkins+Will, North America’s largest architecture firm; and Steven Misner, director of corporate services at Holmes & Brakel Interiors. 2—Teknion Studio design director Jeffrey Bernett with Teknion’s VP design and corporate marketing Joe Regan and CFO Scott Bond. 3—Something to celebrate: dinner in the Kiln Room.
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Fall fun
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—Text and photos by David Lasker
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Zeidler book launch “Please bring a strong arm to take away your complimentary book,” read the invitation to the book launch of Buildings Cities Life, the massive, heavy autobiography of Eberhard Zeidler, architect of Toronto’s Eaton Centre and Queen’s Quay Terminal, Vancouver’s BC Place, and many another important buildings here and abroad. The event was a joyous reunion for friends of the Zeidler clan, taking place as it did in daughter Christina’s hip Gladstone Hotel. 1—Eb Zeidler with Jacek Vogel, who worked at Zeidler Roberts Partnership/Architects before starting his own, eponymous architecture business. 2—Martha (née Robinson) and George Butterfield of Butterfield and Robinson, the biking-and-walking travel company; Margie Zeidler, founder of 401 Richmond, the artist-entrepreneur hub housed in a century-old tin-can lithography factory she saved from the wrecker’s ball; and brother Robert, leasing director at Pinnacle International Realty Group. 3—Jane Zeidler, who as art consultant hung Michael Snow’s Flight Stop gaggle of Canada geese in her husband’s Eaton Centre Galleria; Jack Zeldan, husband of Jane’s late business partner, Sheila; the Zeidler’s Rosedale neighbour Ceri Cleber, unofficial “mayor” of Beaumont Road; and real-estate mogul Elise Kalles.
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Smart House “Smaller is better” was the message at the launch of Smart House, a “microcondo” project slated for Queen Street West with architecture by architectsAlliance and interior design by II By IV. 1—Graham Hill, founder, TreeHugger and LifeEdited; Lloyd Alter, editor, TreeHugger; and Grant Algar of Grant’s Interior Design, Bowmanville, Ont. 2—Smart House developers: Terry Lustig, development and marketing manager, and Rony Hirsch, president, Malibu Investments; and David Wex, partner, Urban Capital.