June 2015
| Business World
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Kearns Mancini Architects is an award-winning architecture
firmbased out of Toronto, Ontario.The firmhas taken onmany
high profile projects around the GTA, and internationally,
stretching as far as China. By utilizing their experience, design
skills and technical expertise, Kearns Mancini carefully craft
signature environments which support the needs of their client
and transform their lives. Above all else, passion motivates the
team at Kearns Mancini. Always driven to embrace the ever-
changing nature of architecture, the firm practices what they
call 'Empowering Architecture', to create spaces which empow-
er the client and the community.
With over 30 years of experience, founder Jonathan Kearns ex-
plains the history of the firm and their approach to architec-
ture.
“Tony Mancini and I met in St. Catharines and worked togeth-
er in an office there,” he said. “We continued to work together
in Toronto called Kline and Sears Architects, where we also
met Dan McNeil. During that time, we set up a small studio of
our own around the corner from that office.”