Canadian Interiors September/October 2015

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35 BEST OF CANADA The winners of our 18th annual design awards – including

Project of the Year (Bar Raval); 16 projects (Broccolini; Hedge Fund Office; Pratt & Whitney Canada Plant 22 Lobby Renovation; Bibliothèque du Boise; York House Senior School; Kinton Ramen; Cluny Bistro & Boulangerie; Café Fargo; Her Majesty’s Pleasure; Drake Devonshire Inn; The Nash Restaurant and Off Cut Bar; Montreal Loft; House in Kings Cross; David Cronenberg: Evolution, TIFF Bell Lightbox; Papier15 Art Fair; The Roy: Condominium Presentation Centre); and three products (Bass Series; Cliff Collection; Juxta).

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SCENE OVER & OUT In Toronto’s old but up-andcoming Corktown neighbourhood, Odin offers a new twist on the coffee bar.

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Montreal-based interior designer Jean de Lessard cites Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as his source of inspiration in thinking of ways to approach a traditional fish market project located in Lévis, on the south shore of Quebec City – named, appropriately enough, Némeau (hint: read it phonetically).

Says de Lessard, “Breaking the usual codes, we invite Némeau customers to explore space and fresh produce.”

100% Design The U.K.’s largest design trade show was firing on all cylinders from September 23 to 26. The 21st edition boasted a full roster from furniture and lighting to fabrics and accessories, with all design disciplines presented to the industry under one roof at its new venue, the Olympia London.

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a Japanese eatery by Dialogue 38, its unpainted spruce slats and blocks suggesting the purity of the cuisine’s ingredients (page 39). - - -------------------------------------------------Whimsy? No one does it better than +tongtong’s John Tong, 2015’s single dual winner – for Toronto’s Her Majesty’s Pleasure, a jaunty combination café/bistro, boutique, salon, bar and event space (page 43); and Drake Devonshire Inn in Wellington, ON, its rooms and suites offering a quirky mix of vintage and modern (page 45). - - - - -------------------------------------------------Incorporating an element of surprise are Rubin & Rotman Architects’ office for Brocollini Construction in Montreal, whose wall, floor and ceiling treatments register as a Photoshop trick (page 31); Architecturama’s Papier15 Art Fair exhibit, also in Montreal, which plays an artful game of peekaboo (page 49); and Union31’s The Roy: Condominium Presentation Centre in Toronto, more an exclusive gallery or event space than a traditional marketing centre (page 51). - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------This year’s Project of the Year – Partisans’ Bar Raval in Toronto, gracing our cover – brings together all three strands, with its Möbius strips of sinuous mahogany; its sprightly steel latticework cladding the front and side windows; and – both ambitious and unexpected – its every designed detail, from drip trays, gutters and stools to brass foot rails, vent covers and acoustic panels (page 28). - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•

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At 18 years and counting, our Best of Canada design competition is not only alive and well but also healthier than ever. This year, we received a record number of entries (175); and I can tell you that winnowing the selection down to a manageable number of winners (20) was no easy task for our excellent panel of judges. - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------Friends of mine (some in the industry, others not) often ask me to identify trends – a request I usually shrink from. But this goaround of the competition (the ninth I’ve witnessed), I can readily identify three: the deft use of wood; a judicious sprinkling of whimsy; and the employment of an element of surprise. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Standouts in the wood department include Montreal’s Bibliothèque du Boise, designed by Lemay, featuring a handsome slatted, folddown ceiling (page 35); Vancouver’s York House Senior School, by Acton Ostry Architects, with its evocative materials palette of blond wood and brutalist concrete (page 37); and Toronto’s Kinton Ramen,

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LIGHT FANTASTIC Montreal-based video game developer Frima has designed a fully immersive gaming experience by synching Hue, Philips’ app-connected home lighting system, with Chariot, Frima’s most popular game. When enemies attack, lights blink red; when plants bloom, their colours are reflected in the room. meethue.com; firmastudio.com

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1 High and mighty Singling out one starlet to spotlight among the cavalcade of new products and solutions unveiled at NeoCon by contract powerhouse Teknion is difficult, but its new upStage workplace furniture system deserves special attention. The unit integrates desks, height-adjustable tables, cabinets, shelves, and cubbies, all outfitted with adjustable power and data ports into a simple platform. But how the platform excels is in the tools it gives workers to separate themselves when desired: functioning solid or perforated metal louvers, magnetically mounted fabric screens (possibly my favourite thing at NeoCon) and stackable storage elements movable without the need for tools shows an attention to the fluidity of the modern worker’s preferences. teknion.com

I want it all!

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At Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, NeoCon 2015 delivers the goods

Apparently we all want collaboration in our work spaces. And solitude. And mobility. And comfort. And energy. We all want technology combined with ergonomics combined with minimalism combined with luxury combined with functionality…we want it all! And NeoCon 2015 was more than happy to satisfy the wants and needs of the 50,000+ attendees that jammed the claustrophobic floors of the venerable Merchandise Mart in Chicago.

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2 Into the void Turkish firm Koleksiyon bowed at NeoCon for the first time with several lines that make bold statements about the need for privacy in an office space – the loudest statement coming from Oblivion, which is essentially a self-contained pod. Its circular form and high walls are cleverly designed to support each other, so as to eliminate the need for leg supports or columns. koleksiyon.us 3 Less is more Coalesse figured there are times when we want a table with fewer legs. And fouronefive_CO was designed for exactly that: to allow users to participate collaboratively and modify the table as needed, for example the frame can span large distances without interposing legs, providing room for freedom of motion while delivering a lighter appearance. coalesse.com 4 Work from home Izzy+ brings a strong residential feel into the workplace with the new Sylvi modular lounge collection. Joey Ruiter designed the line with an eye to more tertiary spaces like lobbies or quick touchdown areas, and attachable backer panels can be used to create a space within a space. Plus, the metal frame hosts hidden USB and power plug-ins, to help make it look like you’re working. izzyplus.com 5 Building blocks Designed for Herman Miller by Berlin-based Studio 7.5, Metaform Portfolio appears at first glance – and second and third glances – to be barely more than modular blocks. And that is exactly what they are, except to great effect: the unfinished expanded polypropylene (EPP) blocks are structurally rigid, lightweight (about 20 pounds) and easy to move, making them ideal for people who constantly tinker with their environment. hermanmiller.com

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6 Game-ifying the waiting room With hospital visits, a large amount of time is spent in the waiting room. So why not make it a bit more fun? Drawing upon research into “positive distraction” in pediatric healthcare, Play Date by Designtex offers an innovative two-part wall treatment system that allows children to transform hospital waiting rooms (and forget about that upcoming needle). A combination of magnetic shape decals and writable dry-erase film make it possible. designtex.com 7 Cut the cord DuPont Building Innovations powered up at NeoCon 2015 with the launch of DuPont Corian Charging Surface, a new technology that charges mobile devices without the need for wires. Available for both residential and commercial use, Surface uses a transmitter hidden below…well…the surface to transfer energy wirelessly to a smart device with either a built-in receiver or an attached Duracell Powermat charging ring. corian.com/PowerUp 8 Silence is silver Of course Allsteel had chairs and credenzas and tables, but maybe the best thing the company brought to NeoCon was silence. The new Beyond plate-glass sliding door improves the wall system’s overall acoustic performance by including an adjustable footer that, once the door is installed, can be lowered to minimize the gap with the floor, and a drop seal that is automatically activated when the door closes, creating a seal between the bottom of the door and the floor. allsteeloffice.com

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9 What a ride! With Konstantin Grcic at the reins, make way for something eye-popping. His appropriately-named Allstar chair for Vitra is pure Grcic, with a gorgeous plastic frame that flows into the armrests and extended arm of the mechanical unit, organically shaped cushions and colours that look like they came out of a box of Crayolas. vitra.com 10 Better living through chemistry Keilhauer introduced two new collections – Wheels and Chemistry – and a new product, Collo, all designed by Austrian design star firm EOOS. The most impressive, Chemistry (shown), is all about interconnected variability: when arranged, the V-shaped bench, base and table options strongly resemble chemical compounds (hence the name) and offer a multitude of configuration options. Think Lego you can sit on. keilhauer.com 11 Gather at the river River by Global Total Office is a series of soft lounge seating capable of curvilinear or rectilinear configurations, either of which are eye candy for the office. And the specification options are impressive, too: seating and tables can be outfitted with power and USB outlets for mobile devices, and textiles or HT construction can be spec’d for high traffic areas like schools or airports. globaltotaloffice.com 12 Checking in Named for the historic Carlyle Hotel in New York City, the Carlyle Seating Series designed by Kevin Stark for HBF embraces minimalism but with a touch of contemporary architectural detailing, such as a gently curved back, solid brushed metal footrests and quarter-sawn ash veneer. hbf.com 13 What’s yours? Muse, designed by Alexandros Stasinopoulos for idesk (a new brand created by Cherryman), was turning heads as a cheerful seating option for breakout, café, outdoor dining and casual meeting areas. Two solid coloured shells and three interchangeable legs mean six polychromatic combinations. ideskinc.com 14 A new sit(uation) UHURU has been praised over the past decade for its residential furniture lines made from reclaimed materials, and just recently expanded into custom commercial manufacturing specializing in the hospitality, commercial, retail and restaurant sectors. This year the Brooklyn-based outfit tested the waters of NeoCon, and while placed on one of the show’s more un-sexy floors, its bespoke and brand-specific furniture stood out, such as the Maderas Lounge Chair made from tigerwood and glossy black leather. uhurudesign.com 15 Life lessons Howe introduced a new collaborative chair concept called SixE Learn, designed by U.K.-based PearsonLloyd, intended to facilitate active learning with a focus on mobility and collaboration. It’s the ingenious small details that help achieve this: from a simple bag hanger on the seat to built-in storage within the work surface itself to a slot that can hold a tablet upright, thereby clearing desktop space. howe.com

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18 Sunspots Lines and colourations reminiscent of the darkest, innermost shadow of an eclipse (called the umbra) are the design inspirations for Umbra and Umbra Stripe, the first modular plank products from J+J Flooring Group’s Kinetex textile composite flooring. Lines of varying breadth and width, sometimes in darkness, sometimes with bright streaks, are seen fainter and correspond to intensified lines. This effect, when set upon a modular plank, creates a myriad of design installation possibilities. jj-kinetex.com 19 Please don’t water Last year a picnic table, and this year…a cactus? Belgian firm BuzziSpace brought the fun again, this time with its BuzziCactus. In three cheeky variations – Taco, TexMex and Gringo – they not only divide rooms and absorb sounds, but can also be clever bulletin boards thanks to pins stuck into the BuzziFabric exterior. buzzispace.com 20 Out of Africa KnollTextiles teamed up with architecture heavyweight David Adjaye for the Adjaye Collection of upholstery, drapery and wallcoverings, inspired by his roots in Africa. An extraordinary range of geometric and organic patterns and textures are rendered through a weaving or printing process, and each of the nine patterns in the collection is named after a place on the continent, like Aswan or Djenne. knoll.com CANADIAN INTERIORS 9/10 2015

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Keeping it 100

At this year’s 100% Design, the U.K.’s largest design trade show, you can expect to see an equal measure of new talent intermixed with established brands.

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100% Design will celebrate its 21st edition this year from September 23 to 26 in a new venue, Olympia London.

Staged across two levels, this year’s event is based upon the central theme of Design in Colour, the brainchild of trend forecasting firm WGSN. Here is an amuse-bouche of new furniture, lighting and accessories to be seen at the show to whet your whistle. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------For more information visit 100percentdesign.co.uk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Hit (and being hit by) the road New to the show this year, Natalia Geci, an architect and production designer from Argentina, will present a new collection of Nomadic furniture, created to fill the needs of her own nomadic family, or as Geci puts it, “furniture that either fits into a suitcase or that turns into a suitcase.” nataliageci.com

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Line ups Italian firm antoniolupi will join 100% Design for the first time with its contemporary bath collections, including the Armonia, a washbasin console made of solid American walnut designed by Roberto Lazzeroni. antoniolupi.it

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Two for one Slovenian bathroom company Kolpa will return to the show, this time with lines such as the eye-catching Symbiosis, so-called due to a design that merges bathtub and sink. kerrock.eu

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Float on by Designer Tom Raffield, based in Cornwall, England, has expanded his contemporary lighting and furniture range with six new designs such as the Butterfly Pendant, inspired by the movement of a butterfly in full flight and handcrafted from sustainably sourced timber using traditional wood working techniques. tomraffield.com

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The winners of our 18th annual design awards

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Canadian Interiors’ Best of Canada design competition is Canada’s only design competition focussing on interior design projects and products without regard to size, budget or location. We welcome submissions from interior designers, architects, landscape architects, decorators, crafts persons and design students. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------This year, submissions went through the roof – or rather reached the roof – for a record high. We received 175 entries from across Canada, in 11 categories: Office, Institutional, Hospitality, Condo Public Areas, Residential, Retail, Exhibit, Marketing, Landscape, Student and Product. The projects and products were each judged anonymously and on their individual merit. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Four judges took part this year. They are Lars Dressler, one half of the material-based design concern Brothers Dressler, in Toronto; Tom Balaban, principal of Montreal-based architectural practice TBA (Thomas Balaban Architect); Caroline Robbie, partner at Torontobased Quadrangle Architects; and Matthew Searle, president of Searle & Company, a boutique marketing consultancy, in Toronto. - -------------------------------------------------As always, the day of judging was lively and instructive. After careful consideration and a lot of good-natured back and forth, the judges chose 20 winners. These include three products, along with 17 projects: 15 from all across Canada — Halifax to Vancouver — plus one in Buffalo, New York, and another in Hong Kong. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Our Project of the Year is Bar Raval in Toronto, which the judges described — in a rush of animated, enthusiastic voices — as “a tourde-force crafts display, where the craft makes the space, the star” and “an enveloping environment, a sensual mystery” and “a little jewel box, every inch of it designed.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Congratulations to all 20 winners. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------• 9/10 2015 CANADIAN INTERIORS

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Bar Raval, Toronto Partisans, Toronto

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The organic, biological-looking forms of Spanish Art Nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí remain ever influential. In the wrong hands, the curvy, antirectilinear formal vocabulary of Gaudi’s iconic Casa Milla, Parque Güell and the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona devolves into kitsch. Partisans avoids this pitfall though rigour and a disciplined vision of its elf-proclaimed “21st-century reinterpretation of Spanish Art Nouveau.” - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bar Raval, located on College Street in Little Italy, is not just a bar, but also a casual restaurant for 40 standees (there is no seating) that introduces a cuisine from northern Spain known as pincho, wherein a small, tapas-like snack is toothpicked to a piece of bread. The client is the resto’s chef, the well-known Grant van Gameren (owner of nearby Bar Isabel, late of the Black Hoof) and resident mixologists Mike Webster and Robin Goodfellow. They approached Partisans co-founders Pooya Baktash and Alex Josephson, and partner Jonathan Friedman, to create an “art piece” eatery that would elevate the status of the mixed drink. Accordingly, the designers masterminded every detail, from drip trays, gutters and stools to brass foot rails, vent covers, metal window screens and acoustic panels. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The big design idea is a lattice or shroud “carefully hewn from what look like unbroken Möbius strips of sinuous mahogany,” in the designers’ words, that envelops and transforms the boxy base-building space into an environment that blurs distinctions between walls and ceiling. The mahogany shroud loops around the entrance and windows and accretes around the bar like wisteria on steroids. Discreet fruit bowl-like recesses in the countertop front function as drink holders. Polished, smooth areas of the shroud alternate with surfaces incised with parallel lines evoking the swirls of a topographical map or the ventral grooves running along the lower jaw of a humpback whale, as in Pacific Life insurance’s logo. A stunner. - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• CANADIAN INTERIORS 9/10 2015

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Broccolini, Montreal Rubin & Rotman Architects, Montreal

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In Corporateland, the move to new and bigger offices may come at the price of losing those more intimate spaces that fostered the exchange of bright ideas. When fast-growing developer and builder Broccolini Construction needed to relocate to much larger, 32,300 square-foot quarters in Montreal, Rubin & Rotman Architects placed communication and collaboration among Broccolini’s three major departments – real estate, estimation and construction – atop the priority list of its design desiderata. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It may look like a Photoshop trick, but those amazingly precise honed boundaries on the new office’s sloping and rectilinear wall, floor and ceiling planes are real. They act as massive wayfinding devices while showcasing the company’s mastery of fit and finish. Angular pieces of wood veneer jigsaw-puzzled together highlight axial movement through the space while knitting together public areas, inluding espresso lounge, meeting and collaboration rooms, and reception area. Glass partitions allow for engaging views across the large open spaces. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The company expresses its graphic identity in bold cherry red. In the cafeteria/community area, vast expanses of the in-your-face hue build esprit de corps.

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Hedge Fund Office, Honk Kong dkstudio architects inc., Toronto

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Balancing the privacy needed to conduct high-finance business with the openness required to democraticically share natural light and the jaw-dropping views of bustling Victoria Harbour was the design challenge DK Studio Architects faced in fitting out a Hedge Fund’s 3,200-square-foot Hong Kong office space. To that end, offices that look out have fully glazed walls along the corridor; and millwork planes topped by foot-high glass panels in lieu of side walls. - - - - -----------------------------------------Amidst all that transparency, abetted by lighting specified

by Toronto lighting designer Suzanne Powadiuk, the luxurious materials sparkle. The palette includes Italian walnut on walls and ceilings, and basaltina (light grey Italian basalt) floors in the main, donut-shaped corridor. - - - - - -----------------------------------------The client brief called for inviting living room-like spaces more akin to a luxury hotel or an art gallery than a typical corporate office. Berlin-based artist Marc Bowditch created several large pieces for the office. Prime among them is a bronze-framed, 36-panel matrix of rodeo-bull watercolours on the main conference room’s Venetian-plaster wall plaster.

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Pratt & Whitney Canada Plant 22 lobby renovation, Mississauga Pearce McCluskey Architects, Mississauga

When a renovation of the tired-looking 2,700-square-foot lobby in Pratt & Whitney’s Mississauga facility was deemed necessary to better express the jet-aircraft company’s innovative brand, Pearce McCluskey Architects won the RFP shortlist selection process. The scope of work included the adjacent corridor and barrier-free entry vestibule; a new barrier-free reception/security desk sheathed in white quartz and chocolate porcelain tile; and security turnstiles, washrooms and new seating. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------A restrained palette of neutral grey, silver and white acts as the backdrop for walnut-veneer wall panels that alternate with bold photomurals of engine closeups. A slat screen of aluminum, the metal perhaps most often associated with aerodynamics, wraps the walls and ceiling above the desk and seating areas. The slats’ anodized finish and finger joints impart high-tech sleekness to the lobby. - - - - - -------------------------------------------------In front of the (existing) big circular window, the slats enhance the play of light and shadow and reduce glare. Above the centre of the room, the slats intersect to form a wing profile. Here, the doubling-up of the slats adds opacity that conceals the roof structure and mechanical equipment. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•

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Bibliothèque du Boise, Montreal

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Cardinal Hardy* / Labonté Marcil / Éric Pelletier* architectes en consortium (*Lemay),

Libraries, traditionally, are quiet places. With its bookstacks, multimedia collections, computer work stations, meeting and training rooms, teen and youth areas, café, exhibition gallery and archival storage, Bibliothèque du Boise, located on parkland in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough, is as much community living room as book hotel. The decibel level may be sedate, yet visually the institution positively shouts, thanks to the vibrant splashes of colour. More than decor enhancements, they serve as orientation landmarks within the 54,000-square-foot space and signify the age groups associated with various sections of the layout. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Illuminated coloured niches mark the entry to each section. Within a section, furniture colour announces a section’s identity. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Architectural disruptions liven up the interior: pieces of the ceiling and roof abruptly fold down to form light wells that funnel daylight deep into the bowels of the building. The resulting high level of natural illumination doubtless contributed to the building’s recent LEED Platinum certification.

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York House Senior School, Vancouver Acton Ostry Architects, Vancouver

There’s nothing “girly” about the new, 36,000-square-foot senior students’ addition to York House Senior School, an independent K-through-12 girls’ school in Vancouver’s Shaughnessy neighborhood. The no-nonsense blond wood and brutalist concrete materials palette, harking back to Arthur Erickson, would not be out of place in a boys’ school or military academy. If Acton Ostry Architects meant to send a message about disappearing gender roles, this jibes with the donor names screen-printed onto the glass guards delineating circulation routes through the atrium. The display of names exhorts students to live up to the school’s post-grad tradition of participation in the larger community. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The sky-lit atrium acts as a crossroads, linking to the existing north and south wings though a generous, day-lit concourse that sets the stage for interactions throughout the school day. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------LEED Gold sustainable design attributes include passive solar control and daylighting, resource-efficient building materials, and enhanced indoor air quality and occupant comfort – thanks to the atrium’s stack effect. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Kinton Ramen, Toronto Dialogue 38, Toronto

The new, 87-seat Kinton Ramen restaurant, located along Bloor Street West’s lively Koreatown strip of Asian eateries, builds on the success and design features of the original, single-storey Kinton near the Art Gallery of Ontario. Both establishments offer casual dining of ramen cuisine, based on wheat noodles in a fish- or meat-based broth. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On the facade, three-foot-tall K-I-N-T-O-N letters at floor level, and the profile of a pig above the entrance set into the upper storeys’ wooden slat screen, allude to the Japanese word “kinton” or “golden pig.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Inside, feature walls are clad in a memorable highly tactile detail from the first location, spruce blocks set at an angle, then piled in zigzags. The broad expanse of unpainted wood evokes the natural, unadulterated purity of the ingredients in the dishes that are prepared in the open kitchens that face long communal tables on both floors. On the upper floor, an arch of vertical wood slats and geisha-patterned wallpaper frame a seating group like it was a stage set, breaking up the large space and reinforcing the Japanese aesthetic. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Cluny Bistro & Boulangerie, Toronto Studio Munge, Toronto

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Set within Toronto’s historic Distillery District, with the heritage building of the Gooderham Condominium, Cluny Bistro & Boulangerie embodies the quintessential French bistro experience. Challenged to pay homage to past traditions with a modern approach, the designers transformed one of the distillery’s old tank houses into a spectacular environment. Inspired by the ornately appointed dining rooms of Paris, the design blends authentic bistro style with an industrial edge — featuring an expansive raw-wood, open-coffered ceiling, raw metal detailing, bespoke furnishings and custom millwork. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------With an interior footprint spanning nearly 12,000 square feet, Clunty comprises an on-site patisserie and café, bar lounge, oyster bar, central dining room and private events space, in addition to three patios amassing 5,000 square feet of outdoor dining space. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------Studio Munge collaborated with local design consultancy Biography to create a custom graphics package; stylized imagery from Dadaism and Art Nouveau, combined with graphic illustrations and hand-painted signage, inject a lively, whimsical quality. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------•

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Café Fargo, Buffalo, NY Davidson Rafailidis, Buffalo, NY

Davidson Rafailidis is Stephanie Davidson from London, ON, and George Rafailidis from Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany. They met as students at the Architectural Association in London, U.K. in 2004 and began to work together formally in 2009. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In a residential neighbourhood of Buffalo, the designers converted a neglected corner store — added in 1921 to the corner of a three-story 1880 house — into a coffee shop. At the core of the space is the winter’s heat source, a large-scale kachelöfen (German for “masonry heater’), constructed as a long, horizontal heated bench and a vertical tower (the latter also forms a spatial pocket that contains the bathroom). Researched and developed in close collaboration with a local mason, it is the largest of its kind in North America. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In summer, extra-large operable windows and skylights provide natural ventilation and passive cooling. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The space between the windows and heater provides an open area for ever-changing seating patterns. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Her Majesty’s Pleasure, Toronto +tongtong, Toronto

Her Majesty’s Pleasure (HMP) is equal parts café/bistro, retail boutique, beauty salon, bar and event space — all located under one roof in downtown Toronto. Situated at the base of a new condo building, it’s a place for a stylish urbanite to get a manicure, pedicure and/or blowout while socializing, shopping and sipping an elixir of his or her choice. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The client and design team set out to challenge the conventions of the salon experience. The design, they found, needed to blur the lines between each zone by subtly reiterating materials, pattern and details, creating spaces within spaces. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The café-bar contains an ornate yet stripped-down, whitewashed bar topped with white marble; it wraps around into the salon areas and sets the stage for manicures. A raised wooden deck lined with Muskoka chairs suggests a cottage-like retreat. In another space, the secluded makeup lounge/ party room resembles a chic cabin. White, light grey, charcoal and shades of blue create a fresh palette. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Drake Devonshire Inn, Wellington, ON +tongtong, Toronto

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The Drake Devonshire Inn is the first boutique hotel in new foodie destination Prince Edward County. As the rural cousin to the Drake Hotel in Toronto, the 11-room, twosuite inn reinvents the tired B&B, taking aesthetic cues from a lexicon of references — from the British country inn and villa in the Hamptons to summer camps and southern Ontario farmhouses. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------The trick was to accommodate a wide range of hospitality options on a small site, already home to a historic iron foundry and flanked by a protected flood plain, the shores of Lake Ontario and the town of Wellington. The team arranged several additions around the foundry: a screened in Pavilion; an A-frame dining room clad in Douglas fir and steel; Glass Box event space/games room; and a quirky Owner’s Suite. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------Interiors delicately balance old and new, rural and urban, high-tech and craft. Colourful idiosyncrasies rule, such as bright and contrasting floor tiles, patterned wallpaper and a mishmash of fabrics and furniture. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------•

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The Nash Restaurant and Off Cut Bar, Calgary Sarah Ward Interiors, Calgary

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Calgary’s National Hotel opened in 1908 near the CP Rail station, sat vacant, fell into disrepair and was recently renovated. The exterior brickwork and windows were the only historical elements to be preserved. Inside, the new Nash Restaurant and Off Cut Bar celebrate the hotel’s Edwardian elegance and colourful history as a cornerstone of the community in the early part of the 20th century. Materials used prominently in the original hotel, such as marble, oak and brass, reappear, but in a contemporary way. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The entrance lobby features a custom mosaic-tile floor, Victorian brass pendant lights and stained-glass wall. Woven-linen upholstery, reclaimed-wood tables and an overscale, hand-drawn map of Calgary along one wall characterize the restaurant. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The Off Cut bar salutes the hotel’s racy youth, when its stretch of 9th Avenue was infamously known as Whisky Row, where whisky and women were always on tap. The black Anaglypta (pressed paper simulating tin) ceiling, smoky blue walls and flooring of fumed oak, the wood used for whisky barrels, lend a period intimacy. - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•

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Montreal Loft Architem: Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski architects, Montreal

Photo by Alain Laforest

The 1,300-square-foot condo over two floors was created for a Montreal couple. The building’s original purpose — as a Stelco factory — is still evident in the exposed concrete columns and very high ceilings. It serves as inspiration for the palette of materials used in the interior design. - - - - - -----------------------------------------A sculptural spiral staircase fabricated in raw blue steel connects the two floors. The lower level contains the main entrance and houses the owners’ master suite: bedroom, dressing room, home office and bathroom (the dressing room incorporates a Murphy bed to welcome the occasional guest). Sliding and retractable steel-and-glass panels provide privacy and allow open spaces to flow. Walnut flooring and anigre panels provide warmth; pale accents include white lacquered cabinetry, marble and quartz. - - - -----------------------------------------The upper floor is dedicated to the living space (kitchen, living room, informal dining). It opens to views of the courtyard on the kitchen side and a canal on the living-room side.

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House in Kings Cross, ON Borolotto Design Architect Inc., Toronto

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Just north of Toronto, Kings Cross is a rural community with architecturally distinct houses dating back to the 1960s. Sitting amid low, lush greenery, this new house occupies the footprint of a previous house, but is thoroughly modern in both design and performance. - - - - - -----------------------------------------It takes its design cues from the unusual topography of the area and from the ranch-style mansard roofs of neighbouring houses. Dramatically horizontal and flooded with light, it is at the same time protective and sheltering.

-----------------------------------------The sinuous curve of a glass wall on the rear facade establishes the sculptural language of the interior. The soaring ceiling of the great room sweeps down to carve out the second floor that holds the bedrooms; the gentle curve is reiterated as the floor spills into the kitchen. This playful scooping and carving creates an internal landscape that parallels the rolling hills of the spectacular ravine, visible from each light-filled room in the house. - - -----------------------------------------•

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David Cronenberg: Evolution, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Reich+Petch, Toronto

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Creepy yet cool, Reich+Petch’s design (in association with the TIFF Bell Lightbox Exhibitions team) for the “David Cronenberg: Evolution” exhibit encapsulates the surreal angst of the audacious Canadian film director, patriarch of the body-horror genre. The dark, tough look of the installation mirrors his cruel world of exploding heads (Scanners), car-accident victim masochist porn (Crash) and humanoid monsters (The Fly, Naked Lunch). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------The immersive, interactive exhibition offers artifacts, movie props, film clips, lobby cards and letters (“Saw The Fly— loved it,” Martin Scorsese writes) that aim, the design brief states, to “delight and frighten film enthusiasts and fans.” - -----------------------------------------At the exhibit’s centre, a large curvilinear installation represents Cronenberg’s brain. The edges display iconic props and artwork from his oeuvre flanked by vignettes and large images that put the objects in their context. At the centre, in the bowels of the brain, so to speak, visitors can view videos of Cronenberg interviews. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------The exhibit’s crown jewels include the chamber, evoking a space capsule or diving bell decked out with sci-fi fins, where Jeff Goldblum metamorphoses into The Fly. - - - - - ------------------------------------------•

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Papier15 Art Fair, Montreal Architecturama, Montreal

Over an April weekend, 17,000 visitors viewed works on paper by 400 artists repped by 40 galleries across Canada. The artworks sprawled over three floors amid the expansive white walls and raw concrete floors of a former schmatte factory at Complexe de Gaspé in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood.

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The Roy: Condominium Presentation Centre, Halifax Union31 Inc., Toronto

Located in Halifax’s historical warehouse district, the presentation centre for the landmark Roy project was conceived as an “expression” of a luxury lifestyle: more an event space than a traditional marketing centre. Created for an upmarket clientele and intended to be inclusive of the immediate community, oversize harbour graphics became art installations in and of themselves, as did the sunken-living-room vignette and display cases full of objets d’art as well as condo plans. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The experience began in a double-height foyer volume, then moved through a narrow threshold of blackened/charred wood panelling before the reveal of fresh “sail white” walls and white oak floors. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To create a gallery feel, the designers worked with the inherent long linear nature of the off-site sales office; removed traditional marketing plans from the walls and placed them in the aforementioned display cases; and, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, prominently displayed work by local artist Graeme Patterson. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Bass is a seating collection designed for both public and semi-private areas. For public spaces, a traditional seating arrangement with a low back is appropriate; for open spaces, a high back with sound-absorbing acoustic properties is desired for privacy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The basic Bass design is a square minimalist armchair and sofa. The seating angle — providing the comfortable feeling of a deep lounge chair — is applied by tilting the chair where the distinct profile originates. Bass rests on a simple but elegant tubular base, which emphasizes its clean, tailored, angular lines. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A high-back version features high sides as well as back. This design is well suited to hotel lobbies, corporate lounges and libraries, where privacy is a concern. Placed together, high-back versions effectively create a “room within a room.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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Juxta Keilhauer, Toronto

Juxta, designed by EOOS, is an innovative collection of chairs, stools and tables created to address the myriad ways people behave and interact while meeting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In large groups or small, in public or private spaces, the juxtaposition of opposing behaviours often occurs in a single scenario at the same time: people in formal meetings pair up and carry on an informal discussion while the meeting goes on around them; other people use mobile chairs to pull up to a table where a stationary meeting is in progress; still other people stand or sit in stools. Juxta addresses all the possibilities. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The collection’s chairs have a graceful, rounded silhouette defined by one continuous outline. Slim volumes are grounded by the bases; tablet arm and base appear as one expression. From a technical point of view, the strategic placement of the seams looks natural, even logical. - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• CANADIAN INTERIORS 0/0 2015

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Cliff — a collection of six lamps — showcases Lambert et Fils’ signature elements: natural brass and matte-black rods; elegant shades; and a range of spherical bulbs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cliff comprises suspension, wall, table and floor lamps. Finishing and connection details add character and nuance to their robust, functional forms.

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Architectural lighting supplier and showroom Dark Tools presented New Zealand–based lighting designer David Trubridge. He spoke about how his four-year boat tour of the Caribbean and Pacific inspired environmental awareness in his product design. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1— From commercial lighting distributor Salex: Ann Jung, sales; partners Nick Puopolo, Paul Hudson and George Katinas; and Rohan Periana, sales. 2— Dark Tools president Glenn Boccini, lighting designer John Atkinson and manager Mohamed “Mo” Nahar. 3— Liisa Taverner, teacher at Kempenfelt Bay School, Barrie, ON, and her firefighter husband, Eric; guest of honour David Trubridge; Amelia Taverner, daughter of Liisa and Eric, and a costume designer based in Wellington, New Zealand; and Sam Trubridge, son of David, boyfriend of Amelia, and a performance designer and theatre director. Above is David Trubridge’s Hush acoustic light made of felt comprising 70-per-cent recycled water bottles; it cuts a room’s reverberation time by 30 per cent.

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It started with the name: Odin, CEO of the Norse god staffing chart, and father of Thor, god of thunder; and also the moniker of a small downtown Toronto coffee bar owned by Thomas Junek and Patrick Tu. The pair, wishful of extending their brand with a flagship Odin location, last year bought into a newly constructed building in King Street East’s rapidly upscaling Corktown neighbourhood. The groundfloor corner unit would house a coffee bar cum bar, suitable for catering to the area’s day-to-night customer base from nearby office buildings and condos. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Next came the concept of linking the Scandinavian name to that region’s physical nature as well as to its famously sleek modern style.

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