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Making the improbable possible since 2012 Award-winning architecture | design | fabrication studio Led by @alexanderjosephson

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Are architects becoming “biological AI” for disconnected software?

@alexanderjosephson argues that architects are paying for increasingly complex stacks of software that don’t communicate with each other, leaving designers to manually connect the dots.

Is it time for architects to take back control of their tools?

🎙️ Watch the full conversation with @alexanderjosephson of @partisansarchitecture and @arturotedeschi on @designing.forward on YouTube and Spotify. by @partisansarchitecture

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💥The EPDA 2026 Winners are here!

A huge congratulations to all the designers and teams behind this year’s remarkable award-winning work. Congratulations to the designers setting a new standard of excellence.⁠

🏆 Best Furniture Design
ALUMINATION
by PARTISANS @partisansarchitecture

Lead Designer: Alex Josephson @alexanderjosephson ,Ian Pica Limbaseanu

Design Team: Alona Zdanievych, Sepehr Beyhaghi, William Qian, Mukul Gupta

Fabricator: Wyatt Armstrong @wyattarmstr0ng (@architectureworksh0p)

ALUMINATION is a sculptural chair and table series that turns flat sheets of aluminum into rigid, lightweight volumes through robotic incremental forming. Deep, fluid concavities contrast with strikingly thin edges, while visible tool-path tracks give each metallic surface its texture.

Discover all the exceptional work in the EPDA 2026 Winners Gallery.
👉 Link in Bio.

#EPDA #EPDA2026 #WinnersAnnoucement #EuropeanProductDesignAward by @partisansarchitecture

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15 days ago

Our studio is expanding and we’re looking for global talent.

@partisansarchitecture is hiring an Intermediate Interior Designer and BIM Technologist to join our Toronto studio.

International applicants are welcome, with relocation support available.

Send your CV + portfolio or relevant work samples to joinus@partisans.com

#ArchitectureJobs #InteriorDesignJobs #BIMJobs #DesignJobs #ArchitectureCareers

Our studio is expanding and we’re looking for global talent.

@partisansarchitecture is hiring an Intermediate Interior Designer to join our Toronto studio.

We’re looking for designers with 3–5 years of experience, a refined design sensibility, and strong technical knowledge across high-end hospitality and residential work.

International applicants are welcome, with relocation support available.

Send your CV + portfolio to joinus@partisans.com

#InteriorDesignJobs #InteriorDesigner #HospitalityDesign #ArchitectureJobs #TorontoJobs

Our studio is expanding and we’re looking for global talent.

@partisansarchitecture is hiring a BIM Technologist to join our Toronto studio.

We’re looking for someone with BIM coordination experience, advanced Revit + ACC proficiency, and technical fluency across building systems.

International applicants are welcome, with relocation support available.

Send your CV + portfolio or relevant BIM work samples to joinus@partisans.com

#BIMJobs #BIMTechnologist #Revit #ArchitectureJobs #TorontoJobs by @partisansarchitecture

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We’re very pleased to share that Muskoka Island Spa has received a 2026 Best of Canada Design Award from @cdninteriors.

The project reimagines a former ice-storage hut as a compact thermal retreat, drawing its material language directly from the island. Canadian Shield granite moves through the interior as flooring, thresholds, basins and carved surfaces, set against the warmth of custom-milled cedar and the retained structure of the original hut.

We’re grateful to Canadian Interiors for the recognition and pleased to see the project included amongst this year’s cohort of winners.

#bestofcanada2026 #bestofcanadadesign #canadianinteriors by @partisansarchitecture

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3 months ago

For everyone asking what the heck I’m doing in China 🤣
Thanks for the invite @alexanderjosephson taken in Guangzhou, China by @partisansarchitecture

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3 months ago

We’re a Toronto-based studio, but our practice and outlook extend globally.

We’re always interested in meeting others who are deeply engaged in their field, curious about the world, and willing to question the assumptions that shape design. PARTISANS is built around the exchange of ideas, expertise and different ways of seeing things — and we’re interested in the people who can bring something unexpected into that conversation.

If you see some common ground in how we think and work, reach out. by @partisansarchitecture

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3 months ago

@quetzaltoronto has been named No. 8 on North America’s 50 Best Restaurants.

Designed by @partisansarchitecture following our work on @bar_raval , Quetzal is organized around open fire as both culinary engine and spatial anchor. The long galley kitchen draws diners into close proximity with preparation, smoke, movement, and exchange, turning the act of cooking into the room’s central condition.

Overhead, a low, undulating ceiling gathers the space into a luminous canopy, concealing infrastructure while softening the intensity below. The result is intimate and elemental - restaurant shaped by the sublime charge of fire.

#torontoarchitecture #hospitalitydesign #interiordesign by @partisansarchitecture

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4 months ago

Tower stacked at speed. Inviting you to take a sneak peek inside our fab lab…

#architecture #timelapse #fabrication taken in Toronto, Ontario by @partisansarchitecture

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4 months ago

PARTISANS is proud to announce that we have been selected to design the Construction Workers’ Memorial at Queen’s Park in Toronto.  
“We inherit our cities as finished objects, but beneath every tower, bridge, tunnel, and road is the memory of workers who risked — and sometimes gave — their lives to build them.” 
In the @archpaper feature on the Ontario Building Workers’ Memorial, PARTISANS co-founder @alexanderjosephson reflects on a forthcoming civic memorial at Queen’s Park honouring construction workers whose lives have been lost or forever changed through work-related causes. 
First unveiled by @ongov, @ontarioatwork, @infraontario on the National Day of Mourning, the memorial carries forward a shared commitment voiced by Premier @fordnationdougford and Labour Minister @davidpiccini: to recognize the workers who have built this province, and to keep worker safety at the centre of public life. 
Designed by @partisansarchitecture in collaboration with @akt_ii, @sprucelabinc, @mulveyandbananilighting, and @colliersprojectleaders, the memorial gathers individually inscribed metal plaques into a raised, self-supporting structure. Each year, on April 28, new names will be added, allowing the memorial to grow as a living record of remembrance. 
At its public unveiling, that commitment was echoed across civic, labour, and construction communities — from @mayoroliviachow and the @cityofto to @pbctcontario, @liunacanada, @onfedlab, @cecco_ici, and @meritontario — alongside the families and communities whose lives are carried in this work. 
Read the full feature in @archpaper.   Link in bio. 
#Architecture #Toronto #PublicArt #UrbanDesign #PublicRealm taken in Queen's Park - Ontario Provincial Legislature by @partisansarchitecture

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4 months ago

Primrose Hill has been shortlisted for the Architizer A+Awards @architizerawards. This nomination speaks to our ambitions in humanizing purpose-built rental housing and rethinking urban densification in Toronto.

Located in Moss Park, the project resuscitates an existing 1970s apartment complex by introducing two new towers that actively invert traditional high-rise massing. In stacking shifting volumes that grow larger as they rise, the architecture maximizes open space at grade for community use. A suspended skybridge physically connects the structures at the seventeenth floor, reimagining residential amenity design as a spatial vehicle for inclusion. At the base, precast arches pay homage the site’s Brutalist heritage.

To challenge the staid development landscape of the downtown core, we collaborated with London-based artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman @adamnathanielfurman on the building facade. Furman’s work gives colour civic weight, using its polychromous force to shape public experience, build identity, and give architecture a more vivid presence in the city. At Primrose Hill, this thinking informed a palette of rich gradients and bold transitions — softening the scale of the cantilevered massing and bringing warmth and optimism to the skyline.

Public voting is open until May 15. Support Primrose Hill through the link in our bio.
@architizer by @partisansarchitecture

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5 months ago

🚀Alexander Josephson (@alexanderjosephson), Architect and Co-Founder of @partisansarchitecture, will be presenting at the upcoming Design-Tech Talk 10!

💬Comment “free” to secure your spot now, and we’ll send you the enrollment link.

🎤 Guest Speakers:

🔸Nic Bao (@nic_bao), Senior Lecturer @rmitarchitecture @formx.research.lab
🔸Dustin White (@dlwhite), Assistant Professor of Structural Design and Director of the Architectural Products Lab in the School of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University
🔸Takbir Fatima (@takbirfatima), architect, and the founder of @designaware
🔸Jae K Kim (@jaek_kim), Associate Professor at Hanyang University, Director of JK-AR
🔸Alexander Josephson (@alexanderjosephson), Architect and Co-Founder of @partisansarchitecture
🔸Tola Navarro (@tola.art), Visual Artist

Design-Tech Talk is an exclusive and engaging panel discussion featuring distinguished experts, each offering unique insights into the latest advancements in architecture, design innovation, and emerging technologies reshaping industries today.

✨This dynamic event will explore the intersection of these fields, with each expert delivering a one-hour presentation that provides an in-depth look at the transformative potential of architectural design, the role of AI in shaping the future of design, and the groundbreaking capabilities of 3D printing in revolutionizing the way we build and create.

📅 Date: May 2 – 3, 2026
🕕 Time: 14:00 – 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 500 Seats
🛒 Free event!

#artificialintelligence #parametricdesign #computationaldesign by @partisansarchitecture

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Toronto is rising fast, shaped by forces we don’t always see.

This Tuesday, join us for Rise and Sprawl: The Condominiumization of Toronto — a conversation unpacking the rapid verticalization of the city, and the roles developers, architecture, marketing, and policy play in defining it.

Presented by Alexander Josephson @alexanderjosephson , co-founder of PARTISANS.

April 14, 6:30–8:00 PM
Toronto Reference Library

Come through. No registration needed. taken in Toronto Reference Library by @partisansarchitecture

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