Zak Ghanim, OAA, RAIC, A. AIA, EES, ABO & TSA

Zak Ghanim (in black Jacket) between his associates.

• Arthur Erickson
• Crang and Boake
• Petroff Partnership
  
  

PUBLICATIONS

In the summer of 1996, Zak Ghanim started videotaped architectural interviews (to be published) with many internationally renowned architects including Mario Botta, Peter Eisenman, Arthur Erickson, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Ray Moriyama, Carlos Ott, Paolo Portoghesi, Paul Rudolph, Moshe Safdie, Ismail Serageldin, Paolo Soleri, Robert Stern, Stanley Tigerman , Eb Zeidler and Boris Zerafa.

Zak Ghanim meets with: Michael Graves Philip Johnson Paolo Portoghesi Peter Eisenman

COMMUNITY SERVICES
Zak Ghanim Architect is a sponsor of The City of Vaughan hockey team.

 
City of Vaughan hockey team wearing Zak Ghanim's Shirts.

AWARDS & HONOURS

• Award of Merit, Heritage Toronto, for restoration of Jolly Miller Tavern, Toronto, ON, 2006.
• First outstanding progress and achievement award, The Arab Canadian Professional Organization, 1997. 
• Trophy of Honour for a series of lectures and seminars at the Engineering Administration, Cairo, Egypt, 1998.
• International Grand Prize, 99 Masterworks Contest, The Deihl Graphsoft, USA, 1997, for 1 & 3 Bond Ave, Toronto, ON.
• 2nd. prize, El-Shark Insurance Company's International Competition, Cairo, Egypt, as a consultant for CPAS, Sep, 1997. 
• Award of Merit in excellence in design, Ontario Association of Architects, 1997. 
• Nominee for Man of The Year 2006, American Biographical Institute.

• El-Noor Mosque, Toronto, ON, 1995. 
• Oxford Street Subdivision, Richmond Hill, ON, 1996. 
• Tagliavia Gardens Centre, Vaughan, ON, 1996. 
• Scarborough Islamic Foundation, Scarborough, ON.
• Miftah Ul-Uloom City on a 100 acres for Greater Toronto Area which will be the first of its kind in the world, 1996. 

• OAA's design excellence competition, Toronto, ON.
• Dream Home, National Home Show, CNE, Toronto, ON.
• Canadian Interiors Magazine's "Colour makes a difference" for Maychell's Cafe & Grill, (now Twilite), Aurora, ON.

• Residential & commercial complexes, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Housing on Toronto's main street.
• CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), Restoration Projects, 1996 
• Prix de Rome. 
• Canadian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 1995. 
• Canadian Governor General Awards, Sep 20, 1996. 
• Canadian Architect magazine, 1996 Awards of Excellence, Toronto, ON, Sep 24, 1996. 

In December, 1996, Michael Graves Architect, Eb Zeidler Architect, Zak Ghanim Architect, Yolles Partnership, ECE group, and CPAS of Egypt, established a joint venture team to deal with various projects in Egypt and the Middle East.

Since its initiation, Ghanim's office has produced hundreds of projects. In Canada and USA, his work includes office buildings, restaurants, community centres, mosques, churches, private homes and plazas. Globally, the projects include a hotel in Morocco; a private house in Ghana; a housing subdivision in Cleveland, Ohio; Restaurants in Michigan, a plaza in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; a restaurant in Singapore; an office building in Egypt; and a hotel and villas in St. Kitts and Antigua, both in the Caribbean Sea.

• Three Proposals of "Housing on Toronto's Main Street" competition, were exhibited in Toronto, ON.
• Three projects were displayed at the "9th Pan-American Biennale of Architecture", Quito, Ecuador, Nov, 1995. 
• A poster of Country Style Booth was exhibited at RAIC Festival of Architecture, Calgary, AB, Oct 12-14, 1995. 
• Country Style Booth, permanent collection, Archival Department, CNE (Canadian National exhibition), Toronto, ON, since 1995. 
• A poster of Country Style Booth, CNE, Toronto, ON, was displayed at OAA Exhibition of Excellence Awards, Apr 28 - May 3, 1995. 
• Five projects were displayed at OAA design awards celebration, Apr, 1996. 
• OAA 1988 Ideas and Presentation Awards Exhibition, OAA, Toronto, ON, May 1 - Oct 31, 1998 
• 3 Projects :1& 3 Bond Ave, Polyson, New Visions on Architecture were displayed at XI Biennale of Architecture, Quito, Equator, Nov 20, 1998.
• Toronto Reference Library, "Zak Ghanim Architect", a brochure, TRL Stacks # 720.92 G34Z11

Five posters of ZAK Ghanim's Buildings, sponsored by "DuRock, Para Paint and Print-in" were displayed at:

• "Symposium on Architecture", Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON, Sep 19, 1995. 
• Metro Home Show, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto, ON, Jan 18-21, 1996. 
• Toronto City Hall's rotunda, Toronto, ON, Jan 22-27, 1996. 
• North York City Hall, North York, ON, Jan 29 - Feb 6, 1996. 
• DX (Design Exchange), Toronto, ON, Feb 12-23, 1996. 
• Town of Markham's Rotunda Gallery, ON, Feb 24 - Mar 8, 1996. 
• National Home Show, CNE, Toronto, ON, Apr 1-14, 1996. 
• City of Etobicoke's Exhibition Gallery, ON, Apr 15-26, 1996. 
• Maison d'Etre Gallery, Toronto, ON, 1996. 
• Vaughan City Hall, Vaughan, ON, 1996. 
• Region of York Headquarters, York, ON, 1996. 
• Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, ON, 1996. 
• Ontario Association of Architects, Toronto, ON, 1996. 
• Ottawa Society of Architects' Week, Ottawa, ON, Sep 13-25, 1996. 
• Word on the Street, Toronto, ON, Sep 29, 1996. 
• Ideas Awards Program at OAA Headquarter, and The Arts & Letter Club, Toronto, ON, Apr thru Oct, 1997.
  

DIPLOMATIC LIAISON

• His Royal Highness Prince Bander Al-Saud (Heir Apparent of Saudi Arabia), was accompanied by Zak Ghanim, during his visit to Toronto, ON, July 3-8, 1995. 

• Through the United Nations Development Program, in Cairo, Egypt, in May, 1995, the following lectures were presented by Zak Ghanim:
  Utopia in Architecture, Space Frame Design and Canadian Architecture. 
• Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Brazil & Iran.

• Besides being an architect, Zak Ghanim is a planner, an interior designer, illustrator, and editing advisor to the Egyptian architectural monthly magazine Alam Al-Benaa (World of Construction). 
• As a journalist for The IIDEX (International Interior Design Exposition) in Toronto, ON, Zak Ghanim escorted architects Stanley Tigerman and Paolo Soleri during their stay in Toronto ON, on 17th & 18th of Nov, 1995. 

• Ghanim's designs have been on the cover of 16 publications, and featured in numerous international newspapers, periodicals and books in different languages, including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Canadian Architect, Real Estate News, Perspectives, Renovations and Decor, Now , Daily Commercial News, Tandem, Al Ahram International, ETC, Alam Al Benaa, Toronto Sun , Arab News Intl., Canadian Buildings, Style at home, and many others. 
• At the level of community papers, he was featured many times, including Arab News International :"Zak Ghanim, an example for a community", and in Al Arabi : "Zak Ghanim : The Artist Inside the Architect", and in East Toronto community News : "Zak Ghanim From Pharaoh to Far-out".
  
  
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• 5 projects of Ghanim Architect were featured in a TV and multimedia show called Architecture : Frozen Music, in Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON, 1996. 
• Home & Garden TV started documenting all construction phases of 1 & 3 Bond Ave, Toronto, ON, (2 houses of Ghanim's design), for a weekly series program Let's Build. 8 segments were filmed and aired between Oct 97- Sep. 1998. 
• Real Estate Watch, CFTO TV, Toronto, ON, Jan 9, 1998. 
• Real Life with Erica Ehm, Life TV, Toronto, ON, Feb 1998. 
• Global TV, 6pm & 11pm News, Toronto, ON, Feb 18, 1998. 
• Studio Aperto (Open Studio), Italian Show, CFMT TV, Toronto, ON, Feb 19, 1998. 
• Cityline (10 am Show), City TV, Toronto, ON, July 30, 1998. 
• CBC National News, Close Up, Toronto, ON, 6 &11PM News, Aug 12, 1998. 
• Abu Dhabi TV interview, Rogers cable, Toronto, ON, 2006
• Hart House Theatre, "I found Nothing", stage set design, written and directed by Emad Nafeh, Toronto, ON, June 19 thru 21, 2003

• Feasibility Studies 
• Site Selection 
• Development Studies 
• Historic Building Assessment 
• Building Survey 
• Pre-design Budget Studies 
• Design & Contract Documents 
• Space Planning 
• Interior Design 
• Visual Merchandising 
• Graphic Design Packages 
• Urban Design 
• Landscape Design 
• Preparation of Specifications 
• Arrangement of Tenders 
• Project Management 
• Material Research 
• Community Involvement 
• Renderings; colour and black & white