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Alberta Bound Sarah Ward proves the saying is right and we should go west.

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01/022019 Features

20 How the West is Winning The Appetizing World of Sarah Ward Interiors. By Martha Uniacke Breen.

27 Alterations on a Theme How the Alt Hotel design merges national branding standards with subtle local context. By Kristen Gagnon.

32 A GAME OF INCHES Bricault Design makes sure “every centimetre counts” for a new high-concept hotel in Whistler.

36 The Elite Lounge Luxury touches, visual interest and Can-Con elevate the airport experience. By Leslie C. Smith

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10 CAUGHT OUR EYE 13 THE GOODS A new start-up aims to bring consumers closer to good design and Ontario designers closer to revenue. 16 The Goods The industry’s newest window and door products favour affordability, easy installation and as always, attractive visual design. 40 SCENE 42 OVER & OUT Geodesic lodgings find functionality in restraint and beauty in humble deference.

COVER – Sarah Ward inside Donna Mac, part of the bustling Beltline neighbourhood in Calgary.

Photo by Brett Gilmour Photography

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With IDS Contract (what used to be IIDEX) now in the fold, the Interior Design Show in Toronto is looking healthy, spry and ready to party!

Victor Le Germain Hotel Le Germain Mercer Street asked DesignAgency to make its hotel restaurant a touch-down spot for both lodgers as well as daytime business visitors.

Lloyd Hall At the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, KPMB Architects oversaw the renovation of a modernist 1970s building designed by Rule Wynn and Rule Architects.

Slender House Designed by MU Architecture, the residence is nestled on, and opens up to, the steep shores of Lake Memphremagog.

Bensimon Byrne & OneMethod Designed by Lebel & Bouliane together with Mazen Studio, the new office occupies the northwest corner of Toronto’s CBC building.

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It is a pop culture joke that fitness centres make the bulk of their yearly revenue in January, off of the memberships that come from people’s New Year’s resolutions to get fit and lose weight. Packed gyms in the first few weeks of the year become ghost towns by March as people lose resolution convictions. I don’t know how literally true this stereotype is, but it wouldn’t surprise me because the sentiment sounds familiar. It was echoed constantly during the holiday season as I met with friends in the design industry and listened to their laments about work/life imbalances and their “goals” to correct them in 2019.

I think the designers I listened to that have the best chance of actually seeing resolutions come to fruition realize they can’t rely on their firms to do it for them. As any life coach will tell you, only you can understand your limits, create a schedule, develop new passions and so on. But let’s admit, it’s hard to get excited about a to-do list, espe-

cially as the year progresses, motivation withers and obstacles pile up. This is why we need to approach balance in a balanced way. “A friend came to me and said, ‘I realize that my life is completely out of balance. It’s totally dominated by work. I work 10 hours a day; I commute two hours a day. There’s nothing in my life apart from my work.

So I’ve decided to get a grip and sort it out. So I joined a gym,’” said Nigel Marsh, author of Fat, Forty and Fired, in a TEDTalk. “Now I don’t mean to mock, but being a fit 10-hour-a-day office rat isn’t more balanced; it’s more fit. Lovely though physical exercise may be, there are other parts to life: there’s the intellectual side; there’s the emotional side; there’s the spiritual side. And to be balanced, I believe we have to attend to all of those areas, not just do 50 stomach crunches.

“Being more balanced doesn’t mean dramatic upheaval in your life.

With the smallest investment in the right places, you can radically transform the quality of your life. Moreover, it can transform society.

Because if enough people do it, we can change society’s definition of success away from the moronically simplistic notion that the person with the most money wins, to a more thoughtful and balanced definition of what a life well lived looks like.”

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Raise a Glass One of the granddaddies in luxury hospitality has opened its first Canadian outpost: The St. Regis Toronto. Ignore for a second what name this building used to carry and focus on what it is now: 258 suites designed by Chapi Chapo Design and culinary venues by DesignAgency, including the lobby-level Astor Lounge and the Louix Louis restau­rant on the 31st floor (shown), with a dramatic crystal glass interior inviting patrons to consider what the world would look like from inside a whiskey tumbler. www.louixlouis.com

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Look at Me! Proving what we already know — that people love to look at themselves — the Art Gallery of Ontario was successful in acquiring Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room as part of its permanent collection. Thanks to $651,180 collected from over 4,700 online crowdfunding donors, with the rest topped off by the David Yuile & Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund, the installation is set to return this spring. Selfie lovers rejoice! www.ago.ca

Password, please Toronto’s newest hole-in-the-wall, Coffee Oysters Champagne, has secrets. But we can’t tell you what they are, except to say that there is more to the space than richly detailed rose onyx walls, marble and gold tables, and plump velvet banquette booths.

Navigate Designs mixes glitz and glamour with illusion and opulence in COC’s design and branding (oops...we’ve already said too much). www.sipshucksip.com

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A new start-up aims to bring consumers closer to good design and Ontario designers closer to revenue.

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Design competitions are nothing new, especially ones geared toward tapping the unbridled energy of young design talent desperate for a little recognition (and hopefully a career bump that comes with that recognition). But a competition that looks to inject some energy into the often-stale furniture industry by actually creating pieces that can be bought seems somehow novel. At least that’s what Desmond Chan and Randy Simmen thought, and it compelled them to launch COFO (the name derived from a contraction of the word ‘co-founders’).

designed by Toronto-based Trish Roque — word was sent out in early 2018 to young creatives with a fairly simple directive: if you are an Ontario resident in your last year of school, or a recent grad (by which they mean having graduated within the past five years), COFO wants to see your ideas.

The response was positive, and a handful of designers were chosen, mostly recent OCAD and Humber College alums. In less than a year, six furniture pieces were produced by Visual Elements, COFO’s parent company, at its 80,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Woodbridge, Ont. “It takes a lifetime for young talent to get their ideas to the showroom floor. We reduced that to a year, and we give the individual designers a platform and percentage of sales,” says Simmen, who brings a wealth of manufacturing experience to COFO having grown up working for Visual Elements, his family’s business which fabricates high-end retail components for companies such as Coach, Nordstrom and Louis Vuitton.

The start-up’s first move was to solicit design proposals from up-andcoming designers in the form of a design challenge. The offer? COFO would work with successful applicants by covering the costs of production, and help the designers sell the pieces to the public as part of a COFO collection. “New designers typically don’t have the resources to take their ideas to the next level,” says Chan, whose extensive experience in branding and apparel comes from being the former creative director and founder of luxury outerwear brand Nobis. “On the flip side, the designer furniture market tends to offer the same big names, which was not exciting for us as consumers.”

Using IDS18 as their launch platform and armed with wads of promotional material and a single product — The Roque lounge chair

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The COFO machine now means consumers can order these ‘freshto-market’ pieces through www.cofodesign.com (for Canadian consumers) or www.1stdibs.com (for international consumers) in less than 12 weeks, and the next round of talent mining has already commenced, with calls for the 2019/20 season now open.

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The Soma Designed by Olivia Sementsova This bookshelf has more going for it than just an eye-catching play of volumes: the tinted, tempered glass shelving houses rotatable cubbies made from laser-cut grills and stained maple veneer wood that are perfect playgrounds for furry feline family members.

The Roque Designed by Trish Roque Unveiled at IDS18, this chair, inspired by elements of Japanese and Scandinavian design, is the product of COFO’s first partnership with a furniture designer, well-before the open-call challenge that resulted in these other product collaborations. This chair scooped up a German Design Award Special Mention, putting a feather in COFO’s cap right out of the gate.

The Cinch Designed by Lucas Stanios Ultra-Canadian in its material palette of Baltic birch, maple, walnut and 100 per cent wool felt laminate on a sturdy Poly Core. This wool is biodegradable and free of VOCs, making it eligible for LEED points.

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The Garcia Designed by Mary Anne Garcia An OCAD environmental design graduate, Garcia’s clever juxta-­ position of materials and purposes can be used as a coat rack, side table or night table.

The 49 North Collection: Lounge Chair, Ottoman and Side Table Designed by Kenny Nguyen & Ian Buckley Named after the 49th Parallel, this collection shares primary material choices: laser-cut and fully-welded cold‐rolled steel frame in a matted powder coated finish, with maple or walnut hardwood trim and cushions (or hammock, in the case of the table) coated in Italian melton wool, materials that can be seen throughout COFO’s entire product line.

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The Calgary design scene is widely acknowledged as punching well above its weight class for a mid-sized Canadian city. The city’s fortunes have long been closely tied to the oil and gas industry, and the population skews to highly educated, internationally savvy and often younger-than-average citizens, with singularly cosmopolitan tastes and palates. For restaurateurs, design can make or break your fortune as much as the cuisine.

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a real entrepreneurial culture here,” observes Sarah Ward, whose eponymous firm specializes in this competitive niche. “It’s not just people who are starting new businesses, but who are willing to embrace new ideas. They’re well-travelled and very sophisticated, and they want to live in a city that reflects that.”

From skyscrapers and condos to all manner of retail and food establishments—even small-scale cafes and sandwich places—design is a major presence all through the city. “Everyone here is highly invested in design, to set themselves apart. And there are a number of really talented [designers] working in this city, and we all work together, so it’s created this interesting kind of design explosion.”

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Born in Saskatoon, Ward moved to Calgary with her family as a young teen when her father, a technical designer in the mining industry, was transferred. “I was always interested in art, always creating things and thinking about design,” she recalls. She earned her degree from Mount Royal University’s interior design program, known for its practicums and gruelling curriculum. Ward thrived in the academic trial-by-fire atmosphere, however; among her undergrad projects was a men’s store design that still stands up. (“If anyone is thinking of opening a men’s store, get in touch with me,” she laughs.)

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Her first job, with Siebenga Interior Design, focused primarily in corporate and office work. From there, she moved on to Ingenium Design, specialists in multi-family and hospitality, where she got

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Previous page The Nash, housed in the former National Hotel built in 1908, reflects the classic Edwardian elegance of hotel hospitality with wide windows filled with light. An historic map of the Town of Calgary and views into the bustling kitchen bring together the past and the present of the space.

This page Elaborate patterns and rich textures are implemented alongside the worn finishes of the historical building Two Penny Chinese resides in. Chinese Deco styling takes the form of sumptuous velvets and textured leathers, alongside terracotta red, reminiscent of temple shingles and the Chinese terracotta army.

her first taste, so to speak, of restaurant design. One of her initial projects was an Italian bistro called Olives in the downtown Arriva Tower, near the Stampede grounds. “The client had a healthy budget and a wide-open space to work in, so it gave us the opportunity to try some new things. He loved high-end Italian furnishings and products like Bisazza glass mosaic tiles.” Especially given both the budget and the creative freedom that project afforded, she says, her passion for resto design was born.

Next came a stint at one of Calgary’s leading hospitality design firms, McKinley Burkart. Ward rose to become director of design, a position she held for the next three years, working on mostly large-scale projects such as Craft Beer Market. But over time, she began to feel restless. “I realized that what I loved most was working one-on-one with clients; as my role became more and more supervisory, I found myself feeling secretly envious of the team members who were able to do that. I learned a great deal there, but I began to dream about starting my own firm.”

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In 2013 she launched Sarah Ward Interiors, naturally assuming it would take time to build the kind of clientele she’d had at her previous firms. Somewhat to her surprise, the new company took off almost immediately. Almost as soon as she hung out her shingle, her first major project arrived: the Nash Restaurant & Off Cut Bar, set in a turnof-the-20th-century former hotel and speakeasy, with, some say, a chequered past. “We looked through city archives for old pictures of the building and the area, and came across old mug shots, some of which are now framed and hung on the walls; these are people who could have been in that room years ago.”

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Nash was an early example of the conceptual approach Ward and her team take to their projects. “Restaurant design is different from every other type of design, because these are highly theatrical, experiential spaces. It’s about manipulating people’s emotions when they are in the space. At the same time, it’s a very technical type of design, which makes it a great marriage for me, because I love the nitty-gritty of getting into the finer details.”

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Starting from a client’s initial ideas, which may be as rich as the Nash project, or simply a cuisine or a mood, the team will begin a comprehensive research phase, gathering material from a wide variety of sources and inspirations, adding to ongoing research in au courant food, design and general trends, essential to getting on the radar in a town like Calgary.

Two Penny Chinese was a little harder to pin down, since Chinese food, even the more sophisticated kind, is really a wide-open field.

Working with the client, they created a homage to Shanghai Art Deco. “In the time period following World War I, there was a boom in building in the city, with many of these jewel-like Art Deco buildings,” which are distinctly different from the European or North American versions of the style, Ward explains. “The colour scheme of dusty terra cotta, seafoam green, and the use of strong patterns, such as the mosaic tile floor and green and navy wallpaper in the foyer, was emblematic of the period. But we didn’t want it to be too strong, so we used more understated patterns elsewhere, such as combed plaster fans on the wall, or the moulded concrete arches on the bar front.”

One of the firm’s newer openings is Alumni Sandwich and Liquor Bar, set in a renovated former Subway fast-food joint. “We had to achieve something pretty great on a tight budget and tight timeline, so we stuck with inexpensive but high-impact materials: vinyl composite tiles; leatherette stools and banquettes; slatted wood booths; pendant lighting and cute little sconces. It has lots of inspiration from old-fashioned luncheonettes and dining cars, but still pretty slick and cool.”

Oxbow was a contemporary update to Ward’s own former design for the lounge and restaurant within the Kensington Riverside Inn, with its breathtaking view of the Bow River. Drawing on the natural colours and textures beyond the windows, and retaining the room’s stately Georgian details without letting them weigh down the design, the team focused on a clean grey/stone/wood palette with monochromatic, toned-down mouldings and stripped-down columns. The mustardyellow mohair banquettes might represent wheat fields, this being the Prairies, but they also add zip to the otherwise laid-back scheme.

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The owners of Donna Mac wanted a design that was clean, approachable and comfortable, in keeping with its chef-driven, artisanal takes on familiar favourites like mac ‘n’ cheese. Ward focused on interesting surfaces like hickory wood, cold-rolled steel panels above the counter, and a cork ceiling, which has the practical advantage of reducing sound transfer as well as softening the look of the high ceilings.

One of the challenges of a speciality like hospitality design is that with each new assignment, you’re basically starting from scratch.

Beyond the barest broad strokes, such as seating capacity or kitchen ventilation, you’re generally making an entire self-contained world from an empty shell. But the very tabula-rasa nature of the category is exactly what drives Ward and her associates forward.

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“In a restaurant, we want you to feel a certain way, take you away from your familiar life right from the time you walk in the door,” she muses. “It’s an immersive experience; that’s what makes it fun and imaginative. I really love the people we get to work with and the projects we get to work on. I have a bigger team now than before as the company has grown, so we can offer a wider variety of design. But actually, we are happy to continue what we are doing.”

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This spread, l. to r. The Oxbow features a monochromatic blue and grey palette accented with brighter colours in the art and fabrics, walls lined with undulating grey fir paneling and the tables made of a pebbled Arabescato stone. The design for Donna Mac focuses on strong geometric forms and materiality, with a sturdy sense of mass and volume in the space, represented in bold column forms and a heavy steel covered bulkhead. Alumni Sandwich’s high-contrast colour palette of bright mustard and burgundy is set off against dark browns and cream tones to create drama, while materials like VCT floor tiles, laminate table tops with diner edge detailing, simple wood panels and aluminum accents are a nod to retro inspirations.

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Alterations on a Theme How the Alt Hotel design merges national branding standards with subtle local context

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For more than 20 years, Canadian hotelier Group Germain Hotels has worked with LemayMichaud Architecture & Design, building 17 hotels under the two distinct brands of Le Germain and Alt Hotels.

Through this long-standing partnership, a high level of consistency has evolved in the design of their brands, while leaving room for nods to the locale of each hotel.

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Opened in November 2018, the Alt Hotel Calgary East Village is the ninth Alt Hotel in Canada and boasts views of the Bow River and downtown Calgary. Set in a historically industrial part of the city, the 1/2 2019 CANADIAN INTERIORS

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black, boxy volume of the hotel evokes memories of this past through square, factory-like window mullions and minimalist exterior aesthetic. Coincidentally, the hotel itself was factory-built in Poland as fully finished and furnished prefabricated modules. These modules were then shipped to Canada and transported to Calgary, where they were assembled onsite.

As with all Alt Hotels, the interior is a constrained yet eclectic ultramodern design. It keeps to a strictly neutral, monochromatic palette of black, grey, white and wood, interrupted only by carefully placed bursts of colour. Images of the city compose a pixilated mosaic art piece on the walls, colour-blocked to mimic the brand’s logo, and quirky birdhouse clocks offset the smooth, polished concrete floors. There is a play of contrast and cohesion, as the warm tones of the wood and bright pops of colour juxtapose the more stark elements of the design.

This attention to detail and concept continues in the guest rooms, which are self-admittedly small, and almost identical in all Alt Hotels, save for local art. To counterbalance the modest floorplate, exaggerated near floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall windows give the sense of floating, and that the rooms are much larger than they really are. It’s a clever move that is in keeping with the effective use of space that is a trademark to the hotel, with custom furniture designed with efficiency and function in mind.

The bathroom is trendy with wood paneling, floating countertop and triangular, inset lights in the multiple mirrors, which help to enlarge the space. The headboard also serves dual function as its floor to ceiling upholstery creates soundproofing and reduces echoes in the room. “All inches are so well-occupied and thought [out that it’s a] small template but you don’t feel it,” explains project designer Louise DuPont. “Everything was set up to create this perfect fit in the room.” Yet a demand was sensed for a similar experience, with just a little more legroom.

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Previous page and this spread: photos courtesy of Groupe Germain Hotels and LemayMichaud Architecture Design

Previous page and this spread The new Alt+ hotel banner of Groupe Germain Hotels targets a business clientele and visitors that plan for longer stays. The 168-room hotel, housed on the upper eight floors of a building, has an entrance hall that is open and uncluttered. The presence of a green wall, flowery patterns of different coverings for the seating and the material used for the made-to-measure lamps are all references to nature seen in the surrounding area.

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Enter the Alt+, whose first location, the Alt+ Dix30, opened in the Montréal suburb of Brossard and is the newest product in the Group Germain line of hotels. “The name says it all; it was an Alt with a plus.

A little bit more than what an Alt is,” explains DuPont.

Located in a commercial hub but surrounded by the agricultural Montérégie region, the design is in keeping with the strict Alt brand while incorporating both retail and rural undertones, such as pops of cornfield-yellow and apple-orchard-red. A broken chevron motif, meant to imitate tractor tracks, is also present in the lobby, where living moss and green-tinted mirrored parallelograms cascade.

Project architect Pierre Mierski summarizes the design concept of the Alt+, and its relation to the Alt brand simply: “We kept the very contemporary and pure design of the Alt Hotels, but with a little more air. That’s the only thing we added!”

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The lobby itself is a large, double height space, with a mezzanine open to below. This is the social hub of the hotel, and includes what have been dubbed “birdhouses”; semi-enclosed alcoves just big enough for two chairs, a small table, and lamp to fit comfortably. These intimate nooks have been carved out of the larger space, and allow for quiet conversations amidst the hustle of the foyer.

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This page Group Germain Hotels’ ninth Alt Hotel in Canada is located at the corner of Confluence Way and 6th Avenue SE in Calgary’s growing East Village. The next Alt will open in early 2019 in Saskatoon, bringing the company closer to its goal of a nationwide network of 20 hotels by 2020.

This “little bit more” also includes other spacious rooms and conveniences such as a small food prep space and separated sink from the toilet and shower, making the rooms more flexible for longer stays.

Open concept, wireframe racks with sleek wood shelves in lieu of a traditional closet, also allude to the retail context of the hotel and add to the overall spaciousness of the room.

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“We really get inspired by the place where the hotel is located,” DuPont continues. “So we’re trying to find an angle not to be too obvious. We are trying to feel where it is and what’s very cool and different about this city.” It is this careful mix that provides branding without becoming banal for the Alt and Alt+ Hotels.

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And as the projects have evolved, so have the teams developing them (Mierski first worked on a Germain Group project 20 years ago, but is now a partner in the firm and working with the Germain’s founding children). But design consistency and local context remain integral to the brand.

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Drawing heavily on the Japanese model of micro-suites for salarymen, Vancouver-based Bricault renovated a drab 1970s time-share apartment block into 88 sleeping pods for Whistler’s visitors combined with a vibrant public bar and eatery. Design problem-solving is evident throughout: separate gear storage rooms morph depending on the season, and the café lounge provides important communal space that extends living space for guests outside of the sleeping pods.

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This spread, clockwise from top left Opening in August 2018 and situated in the heart of Whistler’s pedestrian village, Pangea Pod Hotel is located steps from the resort’s chairlift stations. Pods are grouped into suites that include their own amenities such as washrooms, showers and change rooms. Owners Russell Kling, an entrepreneur from Cape Town and wife Jelena Kling, a biochemical engineer from Belgrade, are new to the hotel industry. Their venture is “inspired by years of traveling the globe.” Bricault Design worked with the clients over three years to create this accommodation solution, which they are calling “Canada’s first pod hotel.” Murals by Ola Volo back the reception counter of self-check-in stations.

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This page The Living Room is designed as important communal space with unique design elements such as copper-plated covers for the custom column lights that accent and extend this shared space for guests outside of the sleeping pods. The ceiling design utilizes a variety of tinted mirror along with topography lights, which Marc Bricault explains “create [a] greater sense of space and facilitate a conversation between the ramblers on the village stroll and the activity in the second story restaurant bar.� Wallpaper and wayfinding designed by Bricault is used to highlight the upper portion of the walls in suites and corridors, much like the complex ceiling design of The Living Room.

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This page A novel design solution to the classic winter and summer resort feature of the gear storage room; The Toy Box is multifunctional, secure, and like the sleeping pods, does not waste any space. Components fold and stow to accommodate a response to seasonal requirements. Reworking the building’s exterior within the Village of Whistler’s strict bylaws generated significant design challenges, such as improving visual appeal at street level.

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The Elite Lounge Luxury touches, visual interest and Can-Con elevate the airport experience.

Some things are worth the price of admission: the view going up the Eiffel Tower; MoMA’s art collection; all 2½ Deadpool movies.

This spread Full height windows looking towards the Rocky Mountain vista and tarmac activity respects the architecture of YYC’s new billion dollar expansion and lofty ceiling heights. A suspended oak slat ceiling creates a lower ceiling height and a moment of pause and decompression at the entrance reception area, readying guests to step into the new environment. The community table appears to rise out from the wood floor ‘runway’ detail, and high stool seating overlooks the entire space with television and window views.

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For flyers of the frequent kind, achieving maximum comfort and convenience in today’s treat-’em-like-cattle airport scene is a goal infinitely desired, even though it comes at a premium price. Yet who could really put a value on a NEXUS pass that lets you scurry through an otherwise three-hour customs line? Or executive plane seating that allows you to stretch your legs while gently quaffing a flute of sparkling wine? Or, indeed, the sane, calming oasis that is the elite passengers’ airport lounge, tucked away from hoi polloi, representing the best features of one’s own house or office?

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Two premier airport lounges, recently opened, demonstrate how this latter feat can be accomplished, as well as how the Canada brand can be subtly showcased to travellers both from home and abroad.

Leaf tartan. And in the business seating section, an enclosing grey wall juts out like a slab of Maritime cliff-face, hung with a triptych of ocean-scapes.

This past December, Air Canada debuted its latest Maple Leaf Lounge, the 23rd in its international portfolio and the first elite lounge to open in New York City’s new LaGuardia Terminal B Eastern Concourse. Designed by the American firm HOK, the 7,015-sq.-ft. lounge nevertheless had a strong commitment to highlighting Canadianmade furnishings and artwork, thanks to Air Canada’s Can-Con mandate. (With upcoming Maple Leaf Lounges planned for San Francisco and other world-wide destinations, this should be good news for our country’s product design and manufacturing industry.)

All comforts for the travel-weary are here: a self-serve bar featuring a wide selection of food and beverages, including Canadian wines and Lavazza specialty coffees; electronics charging and free Wi-fi; group and individual seating arrangements; even a business centre complete with PC access and colour printers. But arguably the best thing about the new Maple Leaf Lounge is the way it makes you plum forget you’re in the middle of Queens in one of the world’s grittiest airports.

Oak, walnut, and our iconic maple echo in lounge’s “live log” sidetables, the slatted screen dividing the servery from seating, and more wooden slats in partial ceiling treatments and walls. Floors are carpeted in granite-shaded tiles; cozy armchairs come in a mix of maple tan and “Air Canada” red reminiscent of classic Maple

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The vista from Swissport’s Aspire Lounge at Calgary International’s new billion dollar expansion beats LaGuardia’s (and most other airports) by a mile: a foreground of flat tarmac shifts into billowing prairie grasses as the sightline stretches back into a magnificent Rocky Mountain ridge.

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facet, Milne says, “is the way the wing-like forms act as a metaphor for motion and flight.”

to view it from the relaxing depths of one of Steelcase’s new Brody chairs in Aspire’s two-storey lounge: the Transborder level for Canadian and American flights and the International level for flights elsewhere. Both lounges employ the same design language and colour schemes that include the client’s signature aubergine accents.

Aspire Lounge’s Can-Con elements start with the 100-foot panoramic digital mural of the Rockies that winds its way along one wall from reception to the back of the seating area. Still in this theme, a large chunk of locally quarried granite emerges at a right angle from the mural to stretch out over the reception desk. The desk and other finishings, including a central “runway” that rises to form a communal table, are made from clear-matted oak crafted by Executive Millwork, a local shop situated close the airport. Scattered close-up photos of area flora and custom boxes of native grasses planted among polished river stones add to the prairie atmosphere in a way “that brings the outdoors indoors, without being corny or heavy-handed,” says Milne.

The 7,000-sq.-ft. lounge had to be fitted into an elongated diamond shape as defined by the client. “The footprint is quite odd,” says designer David Milne, president and creative director of Toronto’s DMD-Design Making a Difference. “Nothing was parallel or aligned.”

The curtain wall too, although visually stunning, presented its own set of challenges, particularly since natural light on the Prairies varies widely from season to season. “There are also huge, dramatic changes from sun up to sun down,” Milne continues. “The airport has some sun control on the curtain wall, which is vitally necessary given its western exposure, especially at sunset.” While on the subject of challenges, Milne points to the limitations of the huge building’s HVAC system, which led to supplemental climate control in the lounge itself through three dedicated fan-coil units.

The terminal’s echoing acoustics also demanded employment of several sound abatement techniques, including sections of oakslatted drop ceiling that reduce the ceiling height to 12 feet and a series of free-floating canopies stretched out below. These canopies make a design virtue out of practical necessity: delineating different seating areas; adding eye interest and intimacy; as well as shading when needed and lighting through inset LEDs when required. At night, as the terminal ceiling shrouds itself in semidarkness, the canopies provide a warm, inviting glow, marking the lounge as a destination point in its own right. Perhaps their best CANADIAN INTERIORS 1/2 2019

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Left With capacity for 126 customers in a calming space that overlooks the concourse, the newest Maple Leaf Lounge is conveniently located post-security near Air Canada’s gates (unlike its previous pre-security location), and is the first airline lounge to open in LaGuardia’s new Terminal B Eastern Concourse.

Even though this was the first lounge DMD has designed, Milne comments that it “wasn’t that big of a leap” from their normal focus on retail.

The client was impressed with the firm’s understanding of meeting multiple customer needs, as well as by their manipulation of the unusual footprint. Indeed, Swissport so liked the unique flavour of the final result that they have already asked DMD to design their next lounge, in San Diego. And the Calgary International Airport Authority so liked the new Brody chair that it has bought a grouping of them for its own areas.

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Admission to both Aspire and the Maple Leaf lounges does come at a cost, most often a priority pass or the possession of a premium ticket, although Aspire will accept a $40 fee for entrance. Once inside their comforting cocoons, however, most or all of the amenities are gratis. That does seem a small price to pay for an airport experience that is the exact opposite of annoying.

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Cocktails at Cosentino for a charitable cause Cosentino City, the showroom in Toronto’s Castlefield Design District that sells the Spanish company’s Silestone, Dekton, Sensa and Natural Stone brand of engineered-stone countertop material, held a cocktail party and fundraiser challenge to benefit the Children’s Breakfast Clubs of Toronto.

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1—Kevin deSouza, owner of Hipstone, a laser template measuring service for surfacing materials; and Renovare Marble and Granite owners Natalie Forest and Ross Dunk. 2—Interior designer Gabriella Gandolfo, owner, Ella Design Solutions; Danny Tulino; owner of window coverings firm Centurion Window Fashions; Jennie Bayda, senior design sales, AyA Kitchens; and Christine Roell, account manager, Cosentino. 3—David White, of his eponymous interior design firm; Marco Medeiros, owner and designer at Perfeito custom furniture and metal fabrication studio; and interior designer Desto Ostapyk of Design by Desta. 4—Erin English, project designer, Lux Design; Dr. Mario Caroselli Leali, VP at Sasso, the Italian stone-cutting machinery maker; Marcella Baric, project designer, Lux Interior Design; and Moe Darwish, CEO at stone-surface installer Apex Custom Fabrication. 5—From building-products manufacturer Ardex: Sherri Wildman, architectural specialist; Toni Natalie and Reuben Godden, sales professionals; Clayton Leckie, technical field rep; and Jim Leblanc, sales professional. 6—Sharon Allen, A&D sales manager; Tony Koukos, whose company, World Travel Photography, offers his travel shots as wall coverings or lighting; and Suzy Margorian, Cosentino City showroom manager. 7—Cosentino’s Lorne Demerse, account manager, and Janine Keeble, architect, designer and builder sales manager; with Ray Delghavi and Marco Fogale, project managers at marble contractor York Fabrica.

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IDS preview In December, Informa Canada, which runs the Interior Design Show (IDS), got into the holiday spirit by holding a preview party at Toronto’s Spoke Club in anticipation of January’s IDS. 1—Light Brigade Architectural Lighting’s Rhomney Forbes-Gray, principal and designer, and Jesse Blomstein, lighting designer; Tracy Bowie, former long-time Informa VP and now a design-industry consultant; and interior designer Dolores Pian, principal of Spaces Custom Interiors. 2—Omar Gandhi, principal at his eponymous architecture firm, with staff members Stephanie Hosein, associate, and Lauren McCrimmon, intern architect. 3—Ian Chodikoff, Informa’s director of conference programming; Heather Dubbeldam, principal of her eponymous architecture firm; and Robert Allen, partner, MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects. 4—Globe and Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic moderated a panel discussion about the Bentway, the public corridor beneath the Gardiner Expressway, with Ilana Altman, the Bentway’s programming director; and Adam Nicklin, principal at Public Work design studio. 5—Kilogram Studio project architects Leah Kim and principals Kfir Gluzberg and Devin Glowinski. 6—Informa’s Karen Kang, national director; Lisa Barnes, director of business development and sales; Nina Eksir, special projects and recruitment; Laura Bennett, digital and web co-ordinator; and Catia Varricchio, strategic partnerships and sales manager. 7—Patti Stewart, Informa executive VP; and Annie Chou, principal designer at packaging and exhibition design firm Arc & Co. Design Collective. 8— KMA Design’s Philip Liu, project coordinator, and Katia Marten, president.

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Sweeny’s soiree ‘T’is the season: The impressive views from the One Eighty Lounge atop the Manulife Centre ensures that the annual holiday soiree that Sweeny&Co Architects (SC) throws for clients and friends remains one of the most lookedforward-to events on the A&D holiday calendar.

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1—Michael Rushton, project manager, Menkes Project Management; architect Peter Kurkjian, senior associate, SC; Bob Lymer, president of engin­eering firm Mulvey & Banani International; and Banah Mustafa, designer, SC. 2—SC’s R. J. Smith, associate, Paul Caravaggio, senior associate; the eponymous founder, Dermot Sweeny; and Alexei Guerra, urban planner. 3—Georgina Hew, Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund volunteer and wife of Robert NG, principal, MAK Design Consultants; and SC’s David Grant-Rubash, associate; and John Gillanders, principal. 4—SC’s Felicity Cormier, admin assistant; and Peter Baugh, developments director. 5—Andrew Kidd, senior VP, NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT; Siobhan Sweeny (“daughter of”), designer; and Rozalia Rajewski, intern architect.

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Geodesic lodgings find functionality in restraint and beauty in humble deference.

By Stefan Novakovic

resolves at a centrally placed bed overlooking the valley below. Above, the versatile black box volume is topped by a second, loft-style sleeping space, taking full advantage of the dome’s height to maximize utility.

From a narrow clearing in the woods, three white domes perch on the edge of a hill. Tucked away below the majestic foliage of Petite-RivièreSaint-François, next to the Massif de Charlevoix near Québec City, the unique accommodations are easy to miss. Deferring to the resplendent landscape, each pared-down geodesic structure introduces a subtle presence that draws attention away from itself, creating a comfortable vantage point to take in the grandeur of the St. Lawrence River valley.

The layout is elegant and rational. Inside the circular dome, a rectilinear volume serves to create discrete spaces within an open whole. The kitchen, bed, bathroom door, and loft stairs are all discretely separated on four sides of the box, with the private and enclosed bathroom tucked in the middle of it all. Without introducing standalone walls and partitions, the design creates subtly delineated spaces that feel open but not exposed. Radiant concrete flooring helps maintain a uniform temperature throughout, while introducing a more textured earthy surface that complements the lighter wooden elements.

Designed by Québec City-based Bourgeois/Lechasseur architectes, the domes are conceived as a high-performance, reinforced canvas membrane stretched atop a concrete base. The streamlined circular footprint, the lightness of the structure, and the dome’s organic form all serve to create an aesthetically unified presence that seeks harmony with its surroundings. Inside, the Dômes Charlevoix offer simple but surprisingly luxurious accommodation. A minimal, earthy colour palette complements the aesthetic unity of the dome structure. Light wood tones are a highlight throughout, fostering a sense of warmth and comfort.

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Embedded into the structure of each dome, windows lend each suite a panoramic view of the valley. Here, the spaces present another small moment of design excellence, as the dome’s triangular reinforced structures become visible, framing the surrounding landscape.

In creating simple vessels that highlight nature’s grandeur, Bourgeois/Lechasseur’s eye-catching domes become quiet architectural highlights in their own right.

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