From the beginning to today, Philip says Ivy Studio has evolved “very organically.” “When we founded the company, we didn’t really have anything in mind in terms of what kind of projects we wanted to do,” he recalls. “It started by us signing one restaurant project, I decided to quit my job, and we’ve kind of gone from there.” In the years since, Ivy Studio has taken on a wide range of project types, including restaurants and bars, hospitality, retail, offices, residential, health and wellness, and more. They have cultivated that variety very purposefully. They have never wanted to be pigeonholed or put in a box. That’s also why they called the company Ivy Studio instead of something more specific: “It’s an abstract name. It’s no one’s initials. It’s not based on our last names. We didn’t want the focus to be on who’s running the firm. We wanted to put the focus on the work, and we didn’t want to limit the kind of work we could do. As partners, we come from a mix of backgrounds, so it makes sense that our projects are very mixed.” These days, when evaluating a prospective project, Ivy Studio doesn’t look at the typology. Instead, they look at the client and their objectives. According to Philip, “we’re open to doing anything where we see room for creativity.” “When a client comes to us and says ‘I want something out of the ordinary,’ that’s what excites us the most. That can be a super-small scale barbershop or it could be a multi-unit residential building, that doesn’t matter to us.” Currently, for example, Ivy Studio is working THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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