Retail Design

What if retail could help revitalize our downtown cores?

Following reflections sparked at the International Retail Design Conference 2024, our team launched an exploratory project around a central question: could department stores once again become catalysts for urban transformation?

Taking the Hudson’s Bay Company store in downtown Montreal as a starting point, we examined this iconic site not only as a retail space in transition, but also as a potential driver for revitalizing the city’s urban core.

This case study offers a strategic, architectural, and urban lens on retail in a time of profound transformation.

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Retail has been part of our DNA for over 38 years

Our passion for creating engaging retail places has led us to collaborate with local retailers and international brands to deploy multiple store formats, from pop-up shops to big box stores, in all major markets in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

Our team of seasoned brand experience specialists goes beyond creating beautiful spaces. They understand that retail is about emotional connections, sensory experiences, storytelling and creating a meaningful interaction between a brand, its products and its customers.

Our process embodies a strategic focus on design, merchandising and customer engagement that establishes a platform for addressing changing needs in the marketplace as well as meeting evolving customer expectations about how they want to engage with a brand.

When aesthetics and efficiency come together

We design spaces that are not only aesthetically inspiring but also functionally optimized to support your retail operations. We collaborate with all key stakeholders to ensure that the brand vision comes to life, on time and within budget.

With a focus on both aesthetics and efficiency, we transform retail spaces into gathering places, where the products, the services, and the brand's values all come together to create a truly immersive experience that fosters lasting, empathically focused relationships.

We offer a full suite of services to bring your retail vision to life

Our fully integrated approach ensures long-term strategic planning for the deployment of projects. Our services encompass prototype design, design management to adapt the concept to fit regional, budgetary and space constraints, store roll-out on a broad scale and project management to assist the retailer at a highly strategic level.