on MR-63, a new cultural venue in the heart of Griffintown. That project incorporates six subway cars from Montreal’s old subway system, which are “piled on top of each other in a Jenga-like layout,” Philip describes. It also includes various exhibition halls, a restaurant bar, conference and workshop space, and a digital auditorium. “That’s a perfect project for us,” Philip says. “It’s something we’ve never seen before. I think it’s going to be something emblematic for the city. That’s a perfect example of the kind of project that we’re excited to work on.” “It’s a very technical space, and it’s a typology we’ve never really worked on, any one of us,” he adds. “It’s something very new for us, but the context of it was so interesting, so new, and so creative, that we just had to be a part of it. We jumped on it right away.” For their team to get excited, however, Philip stresses that the project doesn’t have to be that large or high-profile: “We can also find excitement in even the smallest projects,” he explains. “If someone comes to us and says ‘I want to do a co-working space, but I don’t want it to feel like a co-working space, I want people to feel like they’re working in their home, or like they’re working outside’ – that excites us too. If a client wants something out of the ordinary, we want to work with them.” In turn, Philip believes that clients with that mentality like working with Ivy Studio because of how collaborative they are and how personal they get. They also like knowing that, by the end of the process, the team at Ivy will deliver a design that JUNE 2024
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