Colour and Light

My Favourite Part

This is by far, my favourite part of the project - the materials, the volumes, the intersection of geometry. The ceiling inset was supposed to be that lush blushing rose colour, but aside from that I love the final outcome. My role - materials, finishes and millwork.
Photo by Raef Grohne.

The Grand Entrance

Materials, finishes and palette development are a large part of my work.
Photos by Raef Grohne.

The New Plan

Logic can be beautiful... especially when it collides with the existing. I inherited the polygonal 'core' in the center of this floor plate - not something I would have ever planned, but it is forcing some of the more interesting aspects of the layout!

Office overhaul

This is project I'm currently working on. It's an 8200 sq.ft. government office with 75 staff members within its walls. Programming meetings were held with the two user groups for this floor. After a thorough discovery process I developed typical workstations for different positions. I presented the layout and massing of the new systems furniture to the project liaison and user groups with loose sketches made with the help of sketch-up wire frames.

God Bless the Client

Karo has had some pretty great clients -- design savvy, adventurous, and usually pretty fun. This long-time client needed to convert their built offices into open workstations to accommodate more staff. They valued the original design integrity and came back to Karo to make the updates. I designed a meeting space and file management center that became structures within the open office space and carried forward the language of the original design.
You'd never guess by their sexy interiors that these guys did high precision machining -- you have to love that!

Concept in Form

My role on this amazing project was, in part, to select the colour palette which included the laminated glass. In this instance a second floor meeting room becomes a glowing glass beacon to the public lobby below. Wrapped in metal 'chopsticks' and projected into open air space the LED fixtures illuminate this glass form on a scale unmatched anywhere else in the project. This is the design introduction at Shaw Tower - the Lantern.