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ONGOING PROJECTS
Seneca College Health and Wellness Centre Toronto, ON-Canada
Toronto Western Hospital – New Tower, Toronto, ON-Canada
Peel Regional Police Operational Support Facility, Brampton, ON-Canada
Peel Regional Police New Divisional Building, Brampton, ON-Canada
Multigenerational Housing Prototype
Catalyst Live Sciences building, Toronto, ON-Canada

SELECTED PROJECTS
Centennial A-Block Expansion project, Scarborough, ON-Canada
Calgary Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB-Canada
Mina Rashid Master Plan, Dubai, UAE
Hybrid Timber Tower
Burnaby Hospital Phase 2, Burnaby, BC-Canada
RCMP facilities, Faro, Carcross, Fort St. James – Canada.
Calgary Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB-Canada
University of Toronto Mississauga Maanjiwe Nendamowinan Building, Mississauga, ON-Canada
Western University Amit Chakma Engineering Building, London, ON-Canada
Oak Ridges Library, Richmond Hill, ON-Canada
Park 459 Master Plan, Mississauga, ON-Canada
Madinah Hajj City Hotels, Madinah-Saudi Arabia
San Jose State University Student Union, San Jose, CA-USA
Pitt River Middle School, Port Coquitlam, BC-Canada
Northwest Elementary, Burton, CA-USA
FIU Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Miami, FL-USA
Zonamerica Cali Campus Phase 1 Concept design, Cali-Colombia
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Master Plan, Torrance, CA-USA
Jeddah Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital, Jeddah-Saudi Arabia
Kaiser Permanente Diamond Bar Medical Center, Diamond Bar, CA-USA
Kaiser Permanente Small Hospital Competition (Finalist)
UHS University Hospital, San Antonio, TX-USA
Vedanta University Teaching Hospital, Orissa-India
Shanghai Jiao Tong University of Medicine Affiliated Hospital Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai-China
Tata Consultancy Services Sahyadri Park, Pune-India


Juan Carlos Portuese is a Partner at DIALOG and an award-winning architect whose career spans more than two decades of design leadership across Canada, the United States, and abroad. He is widely recognized for his ability to guide complex institutional and civic projects, from healthcare and higher-education to public safety, recreation, workplaces, and campus master plans, with clarity, rigour, and an unwavering commitment to design excellence.

For Juan Carlos, architecture is not simply the production of buildings but a cultural act, one that shapes how we understand ourselves, how communities relate, and how people find meaning in the environments they inhabit. His work is grounded in a belief that architecture must serve as both a practical instrument and a humanistic medium, capable of elevating daily life while responding intelligently to program, place, and purpose.

His practice is marked by an ability to integrate the demands of program, site, environmental performance, and building science into coherent architectural responses.

He is equally devoted to the collaborative process. Juan Carlos is known for bringing together clients, consultants, constructors, and communities around a shared vision, fostering trust, curiosity, and a sense of collective authorship. His leadership consistently produces work that is not only technically rigorous and contextually grounded but also meaningful, inclusive, and enduring.

Juan Carlos holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad Rafael Urdaneta in Venezuela. He is a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects, NCARB certified, an International Associate of the American Institute of Architects, and a licensed architect with the Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela.




CONTACT
contact@jcportuese.com