hospitality
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ARIDO Award: Cavana Ridge Spa
Cavana Ridge Spa is a lofty hospitality project that presents a beautiful balance of design challenges and inspiring potential. Our team’s mandate was to transform a run down, vacant water testing f ...
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Bow Down to Mean Bao’s newest spot
Our goal for the design of Mean Bao‘s latest location was to create a compact space that would streamline their takeout process and efficiently accommodate the restaurant’s grab-and-go system. ...
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The natural beauty of China’s landscape is the perfect backdrop for a relaxing dining experience
With inspiration from the famous Suzhou Water Town in China, our design team began analyzing the natural elements and Chinese architectural features of the site. The client wished to stay away from th ...
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Latest outpost hails an exciting new phase for this coffee roaster
Hale Coffee first found their home in the west end of Toronto with their large, industrial-style cafe location where they roasted their own coffee and baked their own fresh pastries. Wanting to expand ...
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Inspiring streams of colours, textures and forms that celebrate the Marriott brand
At the heart of a rising city centre, the Toronto Markham Marriott hotel was designed to be a glittering embassy for the senses. Recognized as a thriving community, the city of Markham’s exciting un ...
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Eat…Work…Play – A hybrid lounge experience
Located on the busy PATH thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, ‘The York’ is an enticing hybrid space that introduces new opportunities for the young, hip clientele to get away from the office to refr ...
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A journey through eclectic luxury in this condo presentation centre
Condo buyers today look for luxurious, hospitality-inspired features when considering a condo for their new home. At Phoenix, our main focus was on how the potential homeowner would use and enjo ...
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An interior that expands the horizons
As the star attraction of one of the most photographed skylines in the world, it only made sense to make the CN Tower interior just as attractive as its exterior. mackaywong responded to the internati ...
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A perfectly IMPerfect restaurant oasis
The design of this restaurant IMPerfect Fresh Eats in Toronto had to exemplify brand values and vision of imperfect and host customers in a countryside vineyard atmosphere. The owners wanted to&n ...
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This office interior is a beauty!
KAN Medical Spa was looking to establish a contemporary, 1,300 square foot professional medical beauty treatment office space in a street level unit of a high density condo in Toronto. The spa owners ...
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A design that wakes up the senses
The design strategy for this franchise bubble tea takeout counter was to create an outstanding, creative, and aesthetic storefront and interior within 800 square foot space in a high end Toronto shopp ...
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A restaurant refresh that brings generations together
Dundas Street Grille is an iconic Etobicoke spot frequented most commonly by the area’s baby boomers. The intention for this new design was to bridge the gap between generations and create a new ...
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Any way you slice it, PZA Restaurant is a totally cool homage to Italy
PZA Restaurant is a distinctive, authentic Italian restaurant unique to the burgeoning culinary scene north of Toronto. The passionate first-time restaurant clients wanted their wholehearted Italian p ...
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The materials palette is as lush as the menu at this Toronto restaurant
Our design team was contacted by David Chang, eight years after he launched Momofuku in Toronto. The brand has matured in new directions and experienced significant growth, so Chang called on DesignAg ...
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Student Housing is reinvented at this former hotel
Campus 1 MTL is a restoration and adaptive reuse project of a former hotel in Montreal. This project presented a new model of post-secondary living in Canada. It involved a transformation of a former ...
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This future forward bubble tea shop uses lighting to draw you in
This Scarborough bubble tea shop is located at the inner corner of an L-shaped plaza with the challenge of limited exposure to the public. The designer’s aim was to redefine the space with an ey ...
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A stunning mosaic is the crown jewel of this luxe eatery
Tucked between the side streets of downtown Toronto's chic and glamorous Yorkville, lies the Fine dining restaurant experiences. Scope of designer services included dsign concept developmen ...
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Whisky and whimsy reform luxury hospitality design
Situated in the former Trump Hotel in the heart of Toronto’s business district, the design team was tasked with removing associations with past ownership, while introducing Canadians to the hist ...
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Elements of Chinese architectural history are key components of this restaurant’s design
Now opening its seventh location, Congee Queen wanted to incorporate elements of Chinese culture to reach out to new customers while maintaining their iconic brand for existing ones. The seating layou ...
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Beyond COVID-19: The future of hotels?
The COVID-19 pandemic has people feeling insecure about their surroundings and their connection to nature is more important than ever. It’s a well-known fact that the virus spreads less in open spac ...
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Bringing Home to Hotel Design at the Kimpton Saint George Hotel
188 guest rooms, fourteen stories, and one common goal: to integrate elements of Toronto’s culture and personality and provide guests with a distinct sense of place. Our team responded to this visio ...
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Beyond COVID-19: How the pandemic will shape restaurant design
RESTAURANT / BAR <IMG Restaurant-1> As the pandemic continues, there is a change in how we live our lives in all aspects. It is commonly referred to as the “new-norm”. &n ...
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Nothing strange about the design for this java joint
Strange Love Coffee is a growing Toronto-based coffee shop focusing on providing a unique coffee experience by utilizing specialized treated water and one of a kind roasts which are hand picked by a C ...
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California cool meets British eclecticism in this serene resort
For their 45 room resort venture, the clients envisioned the modernity of California beach houses with British eclecticism. Interior Designer: Eric McClelland, ARIDO Design Firm: Fleur-de-Lis Interior ...
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Village markets serve as inspiration for this modern juice shop
Village Juicery is a Toronto-based producer and distributor of raw, 100% organic cold-pressed juice and related plant-based food and beverage products. With five existing street-front locations throug ...