Design

The Cabin of the Future Is Smaller, Simpler, and Prebuilt

Architect Julien Nolin’s Quebec prefab company Base Habitation is building high-performance cabins around local manufacturing and simplified designs.

Design

A Guide to Design Week Montreal 2026

Where to be, what to see, and how to make the most of the city's first-ever design week.

Design

Is Montreal a World Capital of Placemaking? That Depends on What Comes Next.

From spontaneous public life to decades of cultural investment, a case for Montreal as a global placemaking capital—and what it will take to keep it.

Design

Cinema Cinema's New Look Was Inevitable

Deux Huit Huit's new identity for Cinema Beaubien, Cinéma du Parc, and Cinéma du Musée starts with a name that was always there.

Design

Estudio Niksen Defines Itself—and Finds Success—in the Art of Doing Nothing

The Saint-Henri brand built itself on the Dutch philosophy of doing nothing. The result is some of the most intentional fashion coming out of Montreal.

Design

Who Will the Entrepôt Van Horne Belong To?

Plans are in motion for the century-old warehouse, but whether it becomes what the neighbourhood needs is another question entirely.

Design

The Cabin of the Future Is Smaller, Simpler, and Prebuilt

Architect Julien Nolin’s Quebec prefab company Base Habitation is building high-performance cabins around local manufacturing and simplified designs.

Design

A Guide to Design Week Montreal 2026

Where to be, what to see, and how to make the most of the city's first-ever design week.

Design

Is Montreal a World Capital of Placemaking? That Depends on What Comes Next.

From spontaneous public life to decades of cultural investment, a case for Montreal as a global placemaking capital—and what it will take to keep it.

Design

Cinema Cinema's New Look Was Inevitable

Deux Huit Huit's new identity for Cinema Beaubien, Cinéma du Parc, and Cinéma du Musée starts with a name that was always there.

Design

Estudio Niksen Defines Itself—and Finds Success—in the Art of Doing Nothing

The Saint-Henri brand built itself on the Dutch philosophy of doing nothing. The result is some of the most intentional fashion coming out of Montreal.

Design

Who Will the Entrepôt Van Horne Belong To?

Plans are in motion for the century-old warehouse, but whether it becomes what the neighbourhood needs is another question entirely.

Design

The urban meadow rewriting the map and memory of Montreal

The Ville-Marie Expressway cut its city in two. This civic space honouring 21 women with flowers, architecture, and intention stitches it back together.

Design

207 Ouest: The emotional inventory of a Mile End design shop

A subterranean curation according to coups de cœur from Myriam and Jeanne Élie of MYEL.

Design

The Saint-Henri soundsmith reclaiming how music should feel

How a record store kid slinging wax by day and DJing by night turned his obsession with audio clarity into a speaker company with soul.

Design

ināt: Crafting perfect imperfections in Montreal's New Chabanel

Furniture maker and woodworker Michaël Fiset (AKA Mike Fiz) of the workshop ināt on creativity, finding purpose, and (re)building.

Design

Your local design re-education starts with these Montreal creatives & artists

Spotlighting 20 Montreal trailblazers reshaping fashion, art, and design with sustainable practices, bold craftsmanship, and boundary-pushing creativity.

Design

The fairyland fashion brand sewn entirely in its founder's bedroom

Avenir Vert's Olivia Donahue turned thrift store finds and teenage entrepreneurship into British Vogue features—all while refusing to compromise on a sustainable vision.

Design

The urban meadow rewriting the map and memory of Montreal

The Ville-Marie Expressway cut its city in two. This civic space honouring 21 women with flowers, architecture, and intention stitches it back together.

Design

207 Ouest: The emotional inventory of a Mile End design shop

A subterranean curation according to coups de cœur from Myriam and Jeanne Élie of MYEL.

Design

The Saint-Henri soundsmith reclaiming how music should feel

How a record store kid slinging wax by day and DJing by night turned his obsession with audio clarity into a speaker company with soul.

Design

ināt: Crafting perfect imperfections in Montreal's New Chabanel

Furniture maker and woodworker Michaël Fiset (AKA Mike Fiz) of the workshop ināt on creativity, finding purpose, and (re)building.

Design

Your local design re-education starts with these Montreal creatives & artists

Spotlighting 20 Montreal trailblazers reshaping fashion, art, and design with sustainable practices, bold craftsmanship, and boundary-pushing creativity.

Design

The fairyland fashion brand sewn entirely in its founder's bedroom

Avenir Vert's Olivia Donahue turned thrift store finds and teenage entrepreneurship into British Vogue features—all while refusing to compromise on a sustainable vision.