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Behind the Build ID: Ashley Botten - Ashley Botten...

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2026/01/15

Ashley Botten is a Toronto based interior designer and the founder of Ashley Botten Design. Raised in Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighbourhood, her earliest connection to design began in childhood through an intuitive relationship with space, furniture arrangement, and atmosphere. That sensitivity was shaped by time spent rearranging her bedroom, careful attention to objects and materials, and frequent exposure to hotels through her father’s career in the hotel industry, which began with Four Seasons

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01:06:58

Behind the Build AD: Robert Micacchi - Micacchi...

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2026/01/12

Robert Micacchi is an architect from Woodstock, Ontario, and the founder of Micacchi Architecture, based in Toronto. The son of an engineer in the forestry equipment industry and a kindergarten teacher, he was drawing floor plans from an early age, inspired by technical drawings brought home from work and by the modernist home of a local architect in his neighbourhood. With Italian family roots and a nonna who encouraged his sense of craft and elegance, he stayed focused on architecture through

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01:35:22

Behind the Build ID: Tommy Smythe - TOM Design...

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2026/01/08

Tommy Smythe is a Toronto born interior designer and former television host whose work is defined by authenticity, personal narrative, and a deep belief in the power of environment to shape daily life. Raised in Toronto, he spent his school years in the city, summers in the Muskoka Lakes, and winter holidays largely in Palm Beach, experiences that exposed him early to contrasting lifestyles, architecture, and cultural rhythms. Encouraged by his mother to pursue creative outlets and influenced by his

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01:02:01

Behind the Build AD: Brad Bradford - City Councilor

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2026/01/05

Brad Bradford is a Toronto city councillor and an urban planner by training. He grew up in suburban Hamilton, raised by his single mother alongside two siblings, and later moved to Hespeler, a community within Cambridge, Ontario, where he finished high school. An active kid, he spent much of his childhood figure skating at the Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena and Skating Centre, training and competing at a high level. He also played rugby, including at the University of Guelph and with club teams.Brad

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01:23:21

Behind the Build ID: Jessica Nakanishi & Jonathan...

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2026/01/01

Jessica Nakanishi and Jonathan Sabine are the founders and principals of MSDS Studio, a Toronto based multidisciplinary design practice working across interiors, furniture, lighting, and product design. Jessica grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and traces her early material curiosity to building alongside her father in millwork settings. She later worked at the skate shop West 49, where assembling skateboards became an early lesson in parts, tolerance, and hands on construction. Jonathan grew up out

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00:51:00

Behind the Build AD: Jon Cummings - JSA

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2025/12/29

Jon Cummings is a Toronto based architect and educator who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario. After early interests in drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics, his path toward architecture deepened through travel and close study of the built environment, including formative time in Italy and exposure to historic and contemporary works.He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, completing multiple co op terms in Canada and abroad, including work experiences in Peterborough,

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01:09:10

Behind the Build ID: Laura Stein - Laura Stein...

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2025/12/25

Toronto based interior designer Laura Stein grew up in the city and is the founder of Laura Stein Interiors and LSI Workshop, a business she created to mentor and support interior decorators and designers. A lifelong creative, she discovered her love of spaces at twelve when she was allowed to redesign her childhood bedroom, sparking a lasting fascination with textiles, colour, and the way rooms feel.Laura studied film and communications at McGill University and went on to earn a masters degree in

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Behind the Build AD: Jason Fung - Jason Fung Architects

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2025/12/22

Jason Fung is the founder and principal of Jason Fung Architect, a boutique architecture practice based in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in Markham, Ontario, in a middle income household where his parents encouraged both academic rigor and creative exploration. Alongside strong grounding in math and science at school, he spent weekends in visual art classes and piano lessons, developing early skills in drawing, observation, and proportion that carried through to university.Fung completed both his

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01:13:04

Behind the Build ID: Marti Gallucci - Mason Studio

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2025/12/18

Marti Gallucci is a Partner and Design Director at Mason Studio, where she has been a key part of the firm’s evolution for over 13 years. She joined the studio as an intern during her fourth year of university, became its first employee, and has grown alongside the practice as it expanded into a multidisciplinary team of approximately 25 people. Her work spans hospitality, restaurants, hotels, private residences, retail, multi unit residential, and self initiated exhibitions and installations, with

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01:42:59

Behind the Build AD: Nicolas Koff, Sebastien...

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2025/12/15

Nicolas Koff, Uros Novakovic, and Sebastian Bartnicki are the founding partners of Office Ou, a practice shaped as much by lived experience and cultural memory as by formal architectural training. Each arrived at architecture indirectly, carrying with them deep impressions of place, history, and making that would later converge into a shared way of working.Nico grew up in Paris, fascinated by archaeology, ancient civilizations, and the way history embeds itself in landscapes. Childhood trips to

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00:59:16

Behind the Build ID: Lara Nancy - LN Studio

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2025/12/11

Lara Nancy Cupido is a Toronto born interior designer and the founder and principal of LN Studio, a full service firm based in Caledon, Ontario. Raised just north of Toronto in an Italian family with an artistic mother and entrepreneurial father, she grew up with a natural blend of creativity and business sense that now underpins her practice.Lara discovered design at the University of Toronto, where an introductory architecture course shifted her perspective on how intentionally designed spaces

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01:24:41

Behind the Build AD: Kevin Weiss - Weiss Architecture...

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2025/12/08

Born in Medicine Hat and raised across the Prairies, Kevin Weiss grew up moving from city to city, an experience that shaped his appreciation for stability and place. A competitive 1500-metre runner in his youth, he also spent countless hours drawing, experimenting with printmaking, and silkscreening at home. Those creative roots eventually steered him toward architecture, where mentors like Barry Sampson and Ian MacDonald helped sharpen his eye and discipline.Kevin’s curiosity for how things are

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01:18:46

Behind the Build ID: Jane Lockhart - Jane Lockhart...

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2025/12/04

Jane Lockhart is a Toronto-based interior designer, television personality, author, and colour expert whose career spans nearly three decades. She founded Jane Lockhart Design in 1997, building on technical training, hands-on work, and a formative early career with Benjamin Moore, where she developed deep expertise in colour, materials, and store planning.Raised in Etobicoke, Toronto, Jane’s passion for design began in childhood as she drew houses, modified dollhouses, and built cardboard homes,

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01:25:34

Behind the Build Roundtable Series: The Missing...

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2025/12/01

The first roundtable series: The Missing Middle, is a candid conversation on how cities can deliver more housing at a scale between single family homes and towers. The talented panel brings together Naama Blonder of Smart Density, Sue-Jean Chung of Studio JCI, Evan Saskin of Blue Lion Building, and Gabriel Fain of Gabriel Fain Architects. Together they unpack what the missing middle means, why it has been so hard to build, and how planning policy, approvals, construction methods, and community

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01:05:23

Behind the Build: Arancha González Bernardo & Michael...

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2025/11/24

Arancha González Bernardo and Michael Fohring are the co-founders of Odami, a Toronto-based architecture and design studio shaped by their international backgrounds and complementary creative perspectives. Arancha, originally from Avilés in Asturias, Spain, grew up surrounded by her family’s fabric and clothing shops, where her early interest in making and material exploration first took form. She studied architecture through Spain’s six-year professional program, graduating in 2012 during the

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00:47:32

Behind the Build: Murray Legge - Murray Legge...

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2025/11/17

Murray Legge is an award-winning architect based in Austin, Texas, originally from Whitevale, Ontario, a rural community outside Toronto. Growing up surrounded by farmland while his father worked as an aeronautical engineer and his mother as a nurse, Murray developed an appreciation for craft, structure, and precision early in life.Initially drawn to art and photography with ambitions of becoming a filmmaker, he studied architecture at the University of Toronto before transferring to The Cooper

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01:03:57

Behind the Build: Jeff Cogliati - Bloom Architects

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2025/11/10

Jeff Cogliati is a Canadian architect and the founder of Bloom Architects, an emerging Toronto-based studio recognized as one of the country’s first fully AI driven architecture practices. Born and raised in Windsor, 1Ontario, Jeff’s early exposure to Detroit’s rich Art Deco skyline shaped his lifelong interest in design. He began his architectural education at St. Clair College and later transferred to Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, where he earned a Bachelor of Science

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01:17:13

Behind the Build: Aleris Rodgers & Francesco...

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2025/11/03

Aleris Rodgers and Francesco Valente-Gorjup are the co-founders of Studio VAARO, a Toronto architecture practice focused on thoughtful, holistic design from concept through construction. They met while completing their Master of Architecture at UCLA and later worked in Europe and Asia, including several years with Herzog & de Meuron. There, Francesco developed deep expertise in façades and building envelopes across large, multidisciplinary teams, and both contributed to the design and

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01:06:02

Behind the Build: Jason Halter - Wonder Inc.

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2025/10/27

Jason Halter is a Toronto-based designer and founder of Wonder Inc, an interdisciplinary studio known for its explorations in modular and prefabricated construction, small-scale architectural design, and graphic and spatial design. Raised in Winnipeg in a creative family surrounded by books, art, and discussions of building, he developed an early fascination with design while spending time on construction sites with his father. After earning an undergraduate degree in history and art history, he

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01:06:25

Behind the Build: Pat Hanson - gh3*

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2025/10/20

Pat Hanson is a founding principal of gh3*, a Toronto-based architecture, landscape, and urban design practice recognized for its clarity, precision, and integration of natural and built form. Raised in a Norwegian-Italian farming community near Regina, Saskatchewan, she developed an early affinity for making and exploring the outdoors before studying fine art and later discovering architecture at the University of Manitoba.After graduating, Hanson moved to Toronto in the early 1980s and began her

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