ANTHONY PROVENZANO ARCHITECT
ANTHONY PROVENZANO, B.ARCH OAA MRAIC
Anthony graduated in 1995, from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture where he won the John Yamada Scholarship for Promising 4th Year Student.
Anthony worked at Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects for the first 7 years of his career where he worked on an array of award winning projects like the Design Exchange ('93), The Walter Carson Centre for Ballet ('94) , The Fields Institute ('94), Marc Laurent ('95), Crabtree & Evelyn Retail Stores ('96), CIBC Private Client Investments ('97) and The Hilton Toronto Airport ('98). In addition, he accepted some small residential & commercial commissions to explore new ideas.
In 1996, Anthony won a Canada wide VIRTU award for 'The Squirrel Chair' - which was a chair designed for a furniture design course he took while in school, in 1994.
For the last 7 years, Anthony has been employed at architectsAlliance where he is a Senior Architect. He has worked on several large scale projects like Spire Condominium ('04), Glas Condominium ('05), Regent Park Towers ('06) and NXT Condominium ('09). In addition, he accepted several small private commissions and entered numerous architectural competitions, to explore new ideas.
Since gaining professional registration, the OAA stipulation that those private commissions must now be executed under a Certificate of Practice gave birth to, ANTHONY PROVENZANO ARCHITECT.
Anthony has been a contributor to the National Post "Constructive Criticism" Feature and is a Regular Contributor to the OAA quarterly journal Perspectives.
As a matter of tremendous family pride, in 2005, Anthony was a guest on the cooking show, The Surreal Gourmet - which had a feature on architects and cooking.
LINKS:
KUWABARA PAYNE MCKENNA BLUMBERG ARCHITECTS
ANTHONYPROVENZANO.COM (personal website)