ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
Ingenious Design & Architecture
A Few Words
About Us
John Formosa is a team of creative and management professionals with decades of international experience. Made up of wisdom and youth it is a dynamic team that is not happy unless it delivers exceptional!
We deliver services in English, Korean, Chinese and Danish.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with an office in Shenzhen China. John Formosa is part of Great Life Group, greatlifegroup.net - delivering products and services since 1926.
JOHN FORMOSA
I am a native of Toronto with an international career designing and developing buildings and spaces for people to live and work in healthy communities. I believe a designer needs to sculpt space to the needs of the people and stakeholders that it serves. Architecture should always have passion and meaning and be connected to its environment.
I also believe that buildings and spaces should be environmentally coherent, functional, and beautiful.
This Is What We Do
Services
DESIGN
We believe in living Exceptional! Why do boring when you can do Exceptional?
Specializing in custom residential design and development we bring experienced and creative energy to the design process. Concept planning, user requirements and scenarios, sketches, renderings, CAD, documentation, scheduling, product / fixture research and selection, creativity and pragmatism, are all tools in our design process. Developed over 40 years of international experience our process takes your requirements and makes them exceptional!
FINANCIAL MODELLING
There is nothing more disappointing than developing a design for your dream home that you love and then not being able to build it. Or even worse, how about being in the middle of construction and not being able to finish? Financial modelling a project even before property acquisition has never been more important.
CONTACT TENDERING
We like to say that a set of plans and a building permit is your permission to build but it doesn’t tell you how the building is going to be built and who is responsible for what in the process. We are experienced in developing specifications and tender documents that stipulate the missing pieces in an effort to minimize the risks inherent in the construction process, which often deals with multiple sub-trades and vendors.
PLANNING
Permits, rezoning, Minor Variances, TLAB, TPAL, Municipal Board hearings, Site Plan Agreements, Official Plan Amendments, public hearings, dispute resolution and negotiation. These are just some of the approval processes that our team is experienced in managing that we can bring to your project.
DEVELOPMENT
Let us bring your exceptional to reality. Our team has years of expertise and experience coordinating multiple professionals both on and off of the project site. These include risk management, forecasting and planning.
We help achieve efficiency and effectiveness in a project to mitigate risk and enhance deliverables. We believe an important, but often ignored aspect of planning, is the relationship it holds to forecasting.
Our Projects
