UMBRA Retail and Concept Store in Toronto, Canada

February 17, 2011 Category: Commercial Building, Retail

UMBRA Retail and Concept Store that located in Toronto, Canada, was designed by Kohn Shnier Architects in collaboration with Figure 3 interior designers . Two floors of retail are tied together by opening a volume of space between them linked by a set of ramping platforms. Simultaneously circulation and display space, this element gives visitors time to adapt to a retail experience shaped by light. Access to the lower portion of the space is by a wide short stair that eliminates any sense of hierarchy between the two levels.The existing steel frame building is fitted out with a new, more environmentally efficient envelope of glass and charcoal grey concrete masonry units which is in turn enveloped in a decorative veil of vertically oriented plastic panels.

Three hundred polycarbonate panels, each measuring 16 inches wide by more than 10 feet highbare extruded in a vibrant colour saturated with pink overtones designed to catch the attention of Queen Street West pedestrian and stand out against the background of its immediate context.

UMBRA Retail and Concept Store design by Kohn Shnier Architects