2018 Architecture Awards

Build 2018 Architecture Awards 66 Best Full-Service Residential Design Firm 2018 – Canada & Best Canadian Modern-Living Project: Beresford Avenue 283 Ph.D. Design is a full-service, design-oriented firm committed to creating distinctive residences by bridging traditional sensibilities with contemporary needs and modern technologies. We profile the firm to gain a fascinating insight into the services it has to offer and how it works to create unique projects that will meet the needs of its valued clients. In achieving this aim, Ph.D. Design’s main challenge is to create architecture that ages well. The firm seeks to educate its clients through the architecture, preventing uncontrolled developments hurting the neighbourhoods it enhances through its developments and designs. Alongside his work for his clients, Piotr is also dedicated to the education as a Professor of Architecture, allowing him to share his insight and knowledge with the wider architecture market and the visionaries of tomorrow. Overall, the future looks bright for Ph.D. Design. The Canadian architecture market is flourishing, with various developments including the Frank Gehry development on King Street in Toronto will help to drive investment and interest in the region’s built environment. This will offer many great opportunities for Piotr and his team which they are looking forward to taking advantage of over the years to come. rawing on more than 40 years’ experience in the market, Ph.D. Design specialises in residential architecture and interiors, serving a wide range of clients from across Canada. The firm’s Principal Peter (Piotr) Marzynski gained his professional experience working in Warsaw, Paris, Antwerp and Toronto with well-known Architects including Stanislaw Marzynski, Emille Aillaud and Macy DuBois. Currently, the firm is drawing on the experience and expertise of this dedicated team to design new houses, undertake major renovations as well as produce additions, restorations and interiors for its clients. The value of the projects that the practice undertakes varies from $800000 to $6 million. Among these projects is the award-winning 283 Beresford Ave, Toronto which is owned by Patti and David Bragg, which Piotr has designed, with General Contractor Enzo del Nibletto constructing the project. Central to the firm’s design philosophy is its drive to fit its designs into the existing landscape. As such, the team are focusing in creating visual harmony, proportions, flow of lines, respect to tradition and materials. D AR180077 Company: Ph.D. Design Inc. Contact: Piotr Marzynski Address: 54 Kingsway Cr, Toronto, Ontario, M8X 2R6, Canada Phone: 001416 725 8201 Website: www.phddesign.ca 282 BERESFORD AVE, TORONTO 23 RIVERSIDE CRESCENT, TORONTO