Canadian Architect Features Lakeshore Dental

Lakeshore Dental Office

Sitting on the edge of Toronto’s waterfront, a previously empty double-height ground floor space is now occupied by Lakeshore Dental. Izabela, a fashion-forward dentist who understands and appreciates the value of good design, moved her dental clinic across the street to take advantage of the bright views, proximity to the water, and to meet the needs of her growing practice. The space, designed by Toronto-based Bortolotto Design Architect, focuses on maintaining a sense of connection, both with its exterior surroundings through large expanses of glazing, and via a feature interior stair, highlighting the vertical volume and inviting visitors through the space.

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Home Builder Digest Feature Bortolotto Among Best Residential Architects in Toronto

Top Toronto Architect

Bortolotto has been included on a list of the 15 best residential architects based in Toronto by Home Builder Digest. We are delighted by this recognition of including us alongside colleagues and friends whose work we greatly admire.

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Canadian Architect Magazine Features Rosalie Sharp Pavilion

Screen Art: Rosalie Sharp Pavillion

As part of pandemic control measures, museums and galleries in many parts of Canada have been closed, partially opened, and closed again over the past year. Public art and architecture assume a fresh importance: it’s often the only real-life art we can get.

This makes Bortolotto’s recently renovated Rosalie Sharp Pavilion especially welcome. A stainless-steel scrim, intricately perforated with a lace-like pattern, wraps this Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCADU) building in downtown Toronto. The undulating metal sparkles in the sun, peeling upwards and outwards at its edges.

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Rosalie Sharp Pavilion Highlighted in AZURE Magazine

Bortolotto Crafts a Sinuous New Gateway to Toronto’s OCAD University

If iconic Toronto architecture was distilled to a single streetscape, it might well be the view south from the corner of Dundas and McCaul. Behind a tangle of streetcar wires, the long, swooping contour of Frank Gehry’s deft reinvention of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unfolds to the west, while the avant-garde modernism of Will Alsop’s Sharp Centre for Design floats like an otherworldly presence overhead. And in the distance, the CN Tower — all 553 metres of it — looms above the downtown skyline. For the new kid on the block, it’s some company.

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Bézier Curve House Highlighted in The Architect’s Newspaper

Bézier Curve House

Bézier Curve House began as the initiative of custom-home builder Farhad Kazmian, owner of Abond Homes, to replace his family’s home in Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighbourhood. His desire was a family home that would also serve as a showpiece for his business. In particular, Kazmian wanted a house that would be the antithesis of the boxy fishbowl. Searching for “contemporary house with sloped roof,” he discovered Tania Bortolotto and her eponymous studio’s spirited and sculptural style.

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Bézier Curve House Featured in March 2021 NUVO Magazine

Curvilinear Contemporary

This home in Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighbourhood came from a client wanting the property to forgo the typical roofing designs of the area while accommodating the pre-existing front yard pool, a rare vestige. Tania Bortolotto designed a home in an L shape to accommodate the pool while maintaining a structural aesthetic that is still very livable. The sloping roof is typical of BORTOLOTTO’s expressive style: it’s singular, stepping away from the A-frame houses most common to this sloped style of construction.

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Bézier Curve House Featured in Interior Design Home Magazine

“A Feeling Of Movement Washes Through The House”

Grasshopper modelling software rendered the Bézier curve of this residence’s spectacular roof, realized by tying together evenly spaced timber joists and pulling them to maximum tension—thereby fanning them. Exposed rafters clad with red oak veneer continue the zinc-shingle roof’s dynamic expression into the interior.

The Architect’s Newspaper Features OCAD’S Rosalie Sharpe Pavilion

Data-Driven Design

As our production of data continues to explode, it’s only natural that that output found its way into architectural design. A new patterned facade at the Rosalie Sharp Pavilion used mapping data to convey a complex web of Toronto’s public artwork, artistic communities, and density of living and working artists for the Ontario College of Art and Design University, the leading design and media program in Canada.

The result is a striking ocean of information, layered beyond measure, sitting at the active city corner of Dundas and McCaul streets where students, pedestrians, and streetcars frequently pass by. Local think tank and architectural design firm BORTOLOTTO transformed the school’s existing office building into 18,000 square feet of student work and exhibition space.

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BLOG//ARIDO Features Lakehead University Student Central

Versatile Student Hub

Lakehead University had two concerns with the reimagining of their Student Central space in a pre-existing building. First, they required a space that could serve a variety of student needs, while presenting a welcoming face to potential students on recruitment tours.

Designboom Highlights Bézier Curve House

BORTOLOTTO’s Bézier Curve House Exhibits Parametricism in Residential Toronto

The house began as the initiative of custom-home builder Farhad Kazmian, owner of Abond homes, to replace his family’s home in Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighborhood. he sought a family home that would also serve as a showpiece for his business — a house that would be the antithesis of the ‘boxy fishbowl.’ searching for a contemporary house with sloped roof, he discovered architect Tania Bortolotto and her eponymous studio’s spirited and sculptural style.

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