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Ralph Giannone B.Arch. OAA MRAIC
Ralph Giannone has been credited as a charismatic and versatile designer, providing vision and leadership for a wide range of award-winning projects. His commitment to the concerns of his clients, his expertise with complex stakeholder relations and his thoughtful designs have contributed to his reputation for realizing projects of enduring value for his clients and their environments.
Ralph’s enthusiasm for urbanism, popular culture and travel have led the firm’s portfolio to include projects such as Port Credit Urban Development, a new urban village on the shore of Lake Ontario and Bar Italia, perhaps the establishment that commenced the renaissance of Toronto’s Little Italy. Current projects include The Tower Hotel, a reinvention of the 40-room hotel in the historic Minolta Tower at the edge of Canada’s Niagara Falls; Don Mills Redevelopment for Cadillac Fairview; Torre Fiore, an exquisite new ‘fort resort’ in the Basilicata region of Italy; Wildeboer Dellelce LLP, a boutique law firm on Bay Street; and Il Fornello on Church Street.
Ralph is a member of the City of Toronto’s newly appointed Design Review Panel. Comprised of 12 leading design professionals, the panel will provide independent advice to city planners in the evaluation of new urban developments and their contribution to the public realm.
Ralph graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto in 1987.
Pina Petricone B.Arch. M.Arch.II MRAIC
Pina Petricone shares her time as Principal of Giannone Petricone Associates and as a Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto. This dual role is a defining feature of the practice, enabling Pina to contribute intellectual rigor and research to the firm’s projects and processes, as well as to give real projects academic consideration. Pina has recently been appointed Director of the Master of Architecture Programme.
Pina’s creativity and love of design has led to some of the firm’s most remarkable projects including the award-winning Fresh Restaurant on Queen Street and the Centre for Ethics, a new interfaculty and interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Toronto. Her current portfolio includes the Albergo Massimo, a new business hotel in Rome, Italy; two new house projects; renovations to the Ontario Science Centre; and the very recent Chester Le Daycare and Community Space in Toronto.
Pina recently presented a paper entitled "Concrete Ideas" at the Tectonics: Making Meaning, International Conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She also participated in Toronto’s first “Pecha Kucha”, a social forum showcasing Toronto's architectural renaissance and design talent.
Pina received her undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Toronto in 1991 and a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University in 1995.