Marianne McKenna
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Birth City: Montreal
Birth State/Province: Quebec
Birth Country: Canada
Resident City: Toronto
Resident Country: Canada
Specialties
Subject: Institutional architecture, commercial, corporate, public
Url: http://www.kpmbarchitects.com
Jobs
Employer: OAA, OAQ, FRAIC,
Title: Founding Partner
Collaborators
No collaborators on record
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts (TFVA) Achievement Award
Date Received: January 01, 2007
Name: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, National Urban Design Award
Description: Le Quartier Concordia Phase 1: ENCS/VA Integrated Complex
Date Received: January 01, 2006
Name: Canadian Architect Award of Excellence
Description: RCM TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
Date Received: January 01, 2005
Name: Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Good Contemporary Design Award
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2005
Name: Winery of the Year, Wine Access Magazine
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Name: Business Week/Architectural Record Award
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2003
Name: National Post Design Exchange Gold Award
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2003
Name: Good Design is Good Business Award, Ontario Association of Architects
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2003
Name: Wood Design Award
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2002
Name: Interior Design Hospitality Award, Best Winery
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2002
Name: Ontario Association of Architects Award of Excellence
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2002
Name: Canadian Interiors Best of Canada, Project Winner
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 2002
Name: Canadian Architect Award of Excellence
Description: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Date Received: January 01, 1999
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
Title: KPMB Architects (Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects)
Description: Marianne is a founding partner of KPMB Architects (1987) and has since established a reputation for making innovative architecture that generates community and contributes to the public realm.
Country: Canada
Start Date: January 01, 1987
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/
Title: Le Quartier Concordia Project
Description: The project comprises new facilities for Engineering/Computer Science and Visual Arts, and the John Molson School of Business.
City: Montreal
Country: Canada
Notes: She is the partner-in-charge of the Le Quartier Concordia project.
Title: University of Waterloo Quantum-Nanotechnology Centre
Description: Size: 240,000 s.f. (approx.)
City: Waterloo
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2010
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=49&fid2=40#desc
Title: RCM TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
Description: The restoration of McMaster Hall and the construction of the new TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning will create a total of 190,000 s.f. of new academic and performance space including a 1,100-seat concert hall, studios and classrooms, a media centre, library and rehearsal hall. The project will define a new cultural precinct for the City in concert with Daniel Libeskind’s transformation of the ROM next door, and the expansion of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art by KPMB on Queen’s Park.
City: Toronto
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2008
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=11&fid2=13#desc
Title: Torys LLP Office
Description: Torys LLP is one of Toronto’s leading law firms. The firm has occupied nine floors in the south tower of the Toronto Dominion Centre since the 1980’s. In 2005, Torys recognized its traditional interiors were no longer aligned with the leadership and innovative spirit that is today the hallmark of the practice.The proposed renovations were conceived to bring the existing premises up to current standards of practice from both a functional and aesthetic perspective. The principal objective was to consolidate client and executive spaces. An underlying goal was to foreground Tory’s contemporary Canadian art collection, which is distinguished by photo-based and conceptual works by internationally-lauded artists such as Edward Burtynsky, Rodney Graham, and Yves Gaucher, among others.
City: Toronto
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
Start Date: January 01, 2005
End Date: January 01, 2008
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=60#desc
Title: Ryerson University Master Plan
City: Toronto
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2007
Title: Le Quartier Concordia Phase 1: ENCS/VA Integrated Complex
City: Montreal
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2005
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=28#desc
Title: Toronto Corporate Office
Description: This project is a renovation and upgrade of 37,112 s.f. of office space distributed over four storeys in an existing downtown Toronto office tower. The project negotiates transparency and accessibility with private, acoustically-sealed individual offices and meeting spaces to provide confidentiality for clients during business transactions.
City: Toronto
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2005
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=36#desc
Title: St. Andrew's College
Description: The St. Andrew's College Master Plan was developed in response to an extensive College Task Force report, which identified a number of deficiencies in the existing facilities and the need for significant improvements to meet the curriculum demands of the 21st century. Derived from the original campus ethos, the Plan creates such new outdoor spaces as academic courtyards and landscape spaces that are linked to a network of paths. These spaces clarify the position of recent campus additions and allow for the expansion of the academic precinct to the west.
City: Aurora
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2003
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=41#desc
Title: McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre
Description: Historically, Canadian solutions in biotechnology have been exported and patented by American companies who have had the funding to take ideas into production. The Genomics and Proteomics Research Centre was conceived to encourage ideas to be developed and produced within Canada. The decision to locate the Centre on the McGill University downtown campus in Montreal strategically consolidates local expertise - as Montreal is one of Canada’s primary biotech industry centres - and generates synergies between the university, the research centre, private enterprise and public partners. Inspired by the collaborative nature of the Human Genome Project where researchers from around the world share their findings over the Internet daily, the architectural resolution was conceived as an incubator for the cross-fertilization of ideas. The design promotes interactions amongst the researchers through both small and large meetings rooms, generously sized laboratories, a central café, open circulation systems and a light-filled atrium with lounges.
City: Montreal
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2003
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=26#desc
Title: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Description: Over the last few decades, the winery district of the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario has significantly improved the quality of its wine and has grown into an important tourist destination. The Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery created an opportunity to merge contemporary wine-making technologies with an authentic architectural response to the region, and marked a significant departure from the convention of local wineries to mimic more traditional European chateau and bodega typologies.
City: Niagara-on-the-Lake
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 2001
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=53&fid2=27#desc
Title: Grand Valley Institution for Women
Description: The program for the Grand Valley Institution for Women called for a new direction in correctional services which emphasized the reintegration of federally-sentenced women into society. The challenge, architecturally, was to translate the recommendations of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women into built form and to replace the institutional atmosphere of women's prisons with a more community-based, interactive environment. Located on a rural site, the design offers a balance of communal and private spaces within a humanely-scaled complex. The concept derives from the village model with buildings organized around a shared central green. To emphasize the residential scale of the complex, the individual program elements – administration, visiting areas, case work, gymnasium, classrooms, etc. – are located within a series of interconnected building elements that share a common circulation loggia fronting the green.
City: Kitchener
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 1996
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=69#desc
Title: Joseph S. Stauffer Library and Computing Centre
Description: The winning entry in a national design competition, the Joseph S. Stauffer Library and Computing Centre implements the vision of Queen’s University to establish a library system for the 21st century. The project houses a collection of approximately one and a half million volumes within a fully networked environment containing digital information resources including Internet access. The project offers a contemporary interpretation of collegiate architecture to respond to the historic campus context. The architecture is inspired by the vertical proportion and rich silhouette of academic architecture at Queen’s as well as European and North American precedents. Traditional forms and materials are translated in a modern idiom conditioned by contemporary building methods, materials and systems.
City: Kitchener
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 1994
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=61#desc
Title: Kitchener City Hall
Description: The new Kitchener City Hall is the winning submission in a national design competition held in 1989. Located on a full city block fronting onto King Street, the city’s main street, the City Hall and Civic Square are strategic elements in the City’s downtown revitalization strategy. The design is conceived as an ensemble of spaces and volumes to express the importance of location, topography, program and context in clear architectural terms and to create a public terrain for assembly and movement through the site.
City: Kitchener
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
End Date: January 01, 1993
Url: http://www.kpmb.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=67
Education
Institution: Swarthmore College
Department: Economics and Art History
Degree: B.A.
End Date: January 01, 1972
Institution: Yale University
Degree: M. Arch
End Date: January 01, 1976
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
Role: Registered Member
Start Date: January 01, 1999
Organization: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Role: Fellow
Start Date: January 01, 1998
Organization: Toronto Society of Architects
Role: Registered Member
Start Date: January 01, 1995
Organization: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Role: Member
Start Date: January 01, 1990
Organization: Ontario Association of Architects
Role: Registered Member
Start Date: January 01, 1986
Organization: Ordre des Architects du Quebec
Role: Registered Member
Start Date: January 01, 1978
Publications By
No publications by on record
Publications About
Title: Wine By Design
Author: Sean Stanwick
Publication: Book
Page: 148-155
Country: United Kingdom
Date Published: January 01, 2005
Notes: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Title: A Design Manual: Insustrial Buildings
Author: Adam Jurgen, katharina Hausman, Frank Juttner
Publication: Book
Page: 144-145
Publisher: Birkhauser Publishers for Architecture
Date Published: January 01, 2004
Notes: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Title: Wineries: Architecture & Design
Author: H. Kliczkowski
Publication: Book
Publisher: Loft Publications
City: Barcelona
Country: Spain
Date Published: January 01, 2004
Notes: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Title: Canada Innovates: Sustainable Building
Author: Luigi Ferrara & Emily Visser, Editors
Publication: School of Design
Country: Canada
Date Published: January 01, 2006
Notes: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
Title: Fluid in Form and Function
Author: Natalie Maclean
Publication: Food and Drink
Page: 120-122
Date Published: January 01, 2001