Photography by Frédéric Bouchard and Ana Borrallo Conceived as a restorative pause within Montréal’s sprawling new shopping and entertainment complex, this inclusive washroom demonstrates how accessibility can be embedded within an environment of genuine architectural sophistication. Rather than relying on overt wayfinding or institutional cues, the design uses spatial sequencing to intuitively accommodate a wide range…

Photography by Stéphane Brügger At the heart of Blinds To Go’s new Westmount headquarters, two lacquer-red staircases operate less as circulation devices than as spatial choreography. The first rises from the ground-floor showroom with a graphic confidence that immediately collapses the boundary between retail and workplace, transforming movement into a brand gesture. Saturated in the company’s…

Photography by Stéphane Brügger The redesigned Great Hall—itself part of larger redevelopments at the College as it approached the 100th anniversary of its foundation—repositions a student thoroughfare as a branded civic interior. Accommodating over 2,700 daily users, the 850-sq.-m. space fluidly integrates café zones, study areas, event functions, and circulation into a dynamic, multivalent commons. At…

Photography by Riley Snelling & LAAB For Montréal-born, digital-first furniture brand Cozey, the leap into physical retail was never going to be conventional. Their Toronto flagship eschews point-of-sale norms: there are no stockroom, no tills. Instead, it functions as a tactile extension of its online ethos, merging showroom, brand theatre, and sensory encounter. The window display…