Architecture & Design

Apaiser l’esprit par le design

Calming the Mind Through Design

Marouchka Franjulien, journalist

Whether born here or adopted by us, we Quebecers spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, according to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. By choice, perhaps; by necessity, certainly. Here, winter is a moment in suspense. It pushes us to take shelter from the elements...

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Calming the Mind Through Design

Marouchka Franjulien, journalist

Whether born here or adopted by us, we Quebecers spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, according to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. By choice, perhaps; by necessity, certainly. Here, winter is a moment in suspense. It pushes us to take shelter from the elements...

Architecture & Design

La beauté en dormance

Sleeping Beauty

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

There’s a demand for perfection in the air of time, a relentless pursuit of novelty that sometimes leaves us breathless. Propelled by the endless scrolling of impeccable interiors on our screens, a desire for perfection and uniformity sets in. This race for the “all new, all clean” pushes us to...

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Sleeping Beauty

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

There’s a demand for perfection in the air of time, a relentless pursuit of novelty that sometimes leaves us breathless. Propelled by the endless scrolling of impeccable interiors on our screens, a desire for perfection and uniformity sets in. This race for the “all new, all clean” pushes us to...

Architecture & Design

Cinq refuges pour honorer l’hiver

Five Havens to Honour Winter

Strøm Nordic Spa

Winter reshapes our spaces. It makes them more raw, more authentic, more essential. Through five spa resorts deeply rooted in their surroundings, this visual feature offers a new perspective on the cold season: one of calm, choice, and presence. An invitation to slow down, to feel, to embrace the months...

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Five Havens to Honour Winter

Strøm Nordic Spa

Winter reshapes our spaces. It makes them more raw, more authentic, more essential. Through five spa resorts deeply rooted in their surroundings, this visual feature offers a new perspective on the cold season: one of calm, choice, and presence. An invitation to slow down, to feel, to embrace the months...

Architecture & Design

Une nouvelle reconnaissance d’envergure pour le Strøm spa nordique du Vieux-Québec

A new important award for Strøm Nordic Spa Old Quebec

By Strøm Spa Nordique

At the 13th edition of the Grands Prix du Design gala, Strøm was awarded a prize in the Centre de bien-être, d’entraînement et récréatif category as well as the prestigious recognition of Project of the year.

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A new important award for Strøm Nordic Spa Old Quebec

By Strøm Spa Nordique

At the 13th edition of the Grands Prix du Design gala, Strøm was awarded a prize in the Centre de bien-être, d’entraînement et récréatif category as well as the prestigious recognition of Project of the year.

Architecture & Design

Cinq refuges pour étirer le temps

Five havens to slow down time

Strøm Nordic Spa

As we have seen throughout these pages, the good and the beautiful can contribute to a healthy and fulfilled life. Sometimes even a brief moment in the right place, with the right experience, is enough to help us adopt a lifestyle centred on well-being. Strøm Nordic Spa establishments have been...

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Five havens to slow down time

Strøm Nordic Spa

As we have seen throughout these pages, the good and the beautiful can contribute to a healthy and fulfilled life. Sometimes even a brief moment in the right place, with the right experience, is enough to help us adopt a lifestyle centred on well-being. Strøm Nordic Spa establishments have been...

Architecture & Design

Cinq refuges enveloppants

Five Enveloping Havens

Strøm Nordic Spa

While nature slumbers, intimacy rubs shoulders with immensity, comfort embraces wonder, and the heat battles the cold at all five Strøm spas. Come and take refuge at our facilities designed for wellness and enjoy the regenerating silence of the cold season which, when disturbed by the crackling of the fire,...

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Five Enveloping Havens

Strøm Nordic Spa

While nature slumbers, intimacy rubs shoulders with immensity, comfort embraces wonder, and the heat battles the cold at all five Strøm spas. Come and take refuge at our facilities designed for wellness and enjoy the regenerating silence of the cold season which, when disturbed by the crackling of the fire,...

Architecture & Design

Concevoir une maison écologique : Comprendre et prévoir

Designing an Eco-Friendly Home: Understanding and Planning

Audrey Bernier-Perron, professional interior designer of eco-friendly commercial and residential buildings at AUB&CO Intérieurs

As environmental and economic challenges force us to rethink our way of life, building or renovating a home so that it is in harmony with nature and its inhabitants is a noble and essential ambition. Much more than a simple choice of sustainable materials or a passing trend, the eco-friendly...

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Designing an Eco-Friendly Home: Understanding and Planning

Audrey Bernier-Perron, professional interior designer of eco-friendly commercial and residential buildings at AUB&CO Intérieurs

As environmental and economic challenges force us to rethink our way of life, building or renovating a home so that it is in harmony with nature and its inhabitants is a noble and essential ambition. Much more than a simple choice of sustainable materials or a passing trend, the eco-friendly...

Architecture & Design

Cinq refuges unissant passé et futur

Five Havens Uniting Past and Future

Maxime Hébert

This summer, Strøm Nordic Spa will be celebrating 15 years of inspiring architecture and timeless moments of relaxation. While leafing through these pages, dive into the unique world of our facilities, which bear witness to our commitment to offering spa resorts where beauty is to space what serenity is to...

Five Havens Uniting Past and Future

Maxime Hébert

This summer, Strøm Nordic Spa will be celebrating 15 years of inspiring architecture and timeless moments of relaxation. While leafing through these pages, dive into the unique world of our facilities, which bear witness to our commitment to offering spa resorts where beauty is to space what serenity is to...

Architecture & Design

Créer un intérieur intemporel et significatif

Creating a Timeless and Meaningful Interior

Lysanne St-Laurent, co-founder of Vives St-Laurent

Creating a timeless and meaningful interior requires a holistic approach, where each element becomes the unifying thread between the past, present, and future. This approach starts with the clever layout of interior spaces, aimed at making them scalable and flexible.  This is also possible by preserving the original architectural elements,...

Creating a Timeless and Meaningful Interior

Lysanne St-Laurent, co-founder of Vives St-Laurent

Creating a timeless and meaningful interior requires a holistic approach, where each element becomes the unifying thread between the past, present, and future. This approach starts with the clever layout of interior spaces, aimed at making them scalable and flexible.  This is also possible by preserving the original architectural elements,...

Architecture & Design

De la nécessité du sanctuaire

On the Necessity of Sanctuary

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

The relationship that Québécois society has with religion could not be more particular. The churches that stand proudly in our landscape bear witness to the spiritual fervour that once animated our communities. However, with the Quiet Revolution, Quebec underwent a major social transformation, and the old religious practices lost their...

On the Necessity of Sanctuary

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

The relationship that Québécois society has with religion could not be more particular. The churches that stand proudly in our landscape bear witness to the spiritual fervour that once animated our communities. However, with the Quiet Revolution, Quebec underwent a major social transformation, and the old religious practices lost their...

Architecture & Design

Le cohabitat urbain : Habiter mieux

Urban Cohousing: Live Better

Paola Duchaine, Écohabitation

Focused on cooperation and mutual aid, cohousing projects are designed and built by and for communities: the neighbourhood spirit is created within a building. Simplicity, cooperation, the sharing of values and assets, connection and social ties, intergeneration, and the prevention of social isolation… Urban cohousing is gaining more and more...

Urban Cohousing: Live Better

Paola Duchaine, Écohabitation

Focused on cooperation and mutual aid, cohousing projects are designed and built by and for communities: the neighbourhood spirit is created within a building. Simplicity, cooperation, the sharing of values and assets, connection and social ties, intergeneration, and the prevention of social isolation… Urban cohousing is gaining more and more...

Architecture & Design

Un design réfléchi : Les stations thermales Strøm, pensées pour le bien-être

A Thoughtful Design: Strøm Spas ― Designed for Wellness

Marie-Michelle De Lachevrotière, interior designer at Strøm Nordic Spa

FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE — The basic principles of Scandinavian design rest on clear and precise foundations. This is a style infused with simplicity in which a certain functionalism and a pleasant modernity are reflected in a spirit of aesthetic enhancement. It is marked by its closeness with humanity, advocating...

A Thoughtful Design: Strøm Spas ― Designed for Wellness

Marie-Michelle De Lachevrotière, interior designer at Strøm Nordic Spa

FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE — The basic principles of Scandinavian design rest on clear and precise foundations. This is a style infused with simplicity in which a certain functionalism and a pleasant modernity are reflected in a spirit of aesthetic enhancement. It is marked by its closeness with humanity, advocating...

Architecture & Design

Une terrasse hivernale bien pensée, pour profiter des plaisirs de la saison froide !

A beautifully decorated winter terrace to enjoy the pleasures of the cold season!

Audrée Kemp Bélanger, Landscape Architect – Interior Designer

During my childhood the outside terrace of our house was always ready to receive family and friends, in summer and in winter. My fondest memories though are the ones from the middle of the winter, when we were coming home after a snowmobile ride and warming up by the outside...

A beautifully decorated winter terrace to enjoy the pleasures of the cold season!

Audrée Kemp Bélanger, Landscape Architect – Interior Designer

During my childhood the outside terrace of our house was always ready to receive family and friends, in summer and in winter. My fondest memories though are the ones from the middle of the winter, when we were coming home after a snowmobile ride and warming up by the outside...

Architecture & Design

L’architecture de l’eau

The Architecture of Water

In collaboration with Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

WATER IN ALL ITS FORMS — Water is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. When it comes into contact with architecture, the fluid element becomes synonymous with complexity, adaptation, and sublimation. Modifying the layout of our spaces from one era to the next, water influences the choice of shapes and perspectives,...

The Architecture of Water

In collaboration with Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

WATER IN ALL ITS FORMS — Water is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. When it comes into contact with architecture, the fluid element becomes synonymous with complexity, adaptation, and sublimation. Modifying the layout of our spaces from one era to the next, water influences the choice of shapes and perspectives,...

Architecture & Design

L’œuvre inachevée comme miroir de notre perception du monde

The unfinished work as a mirror of our perception of the world

Strøm spa nordique with the participation of Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

Each place, artistic construction or handcrafted object reveals the essence of the person who made it and of those who contemplate his work. The creations deliberately designed and loved for their flaws say a lot about the approach of its creator and its followers. Why would a skilled artist voluntarily...

The unfinished work as a mirror of our perception of the world

Strøm spa nordique with the participation of Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, environmental designer

Each place, artistic construction or handcrafted object reveals the essence of the person who made it and of those who contemplate his work. The creations deliberately designed and loved for their flaws say a lot about the approach of its creator and its followers. Why would a skilled artist voluntarily...

Architecture & Design

Regard vers l’avenir : L’impact de la crise sanitaire sur la configuration de nos espaces

Looking to the Future: The Impact of the Health Crisis on the Configuration of Our Spaces

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, Environmental Designer

ADAPTING TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW — At a time when the pandemic highlights collective vulnerability and the limits of our environment, the integration of new needs could allow designers, architects, and urban planners to redefine personal, shared, and collective spaces. A revaluation of our environmental achievements becomes necessary when...

Looking to the Future: The Impact of the Health Crisis on the Configuration of Our Spaces

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, Environmental Designer

ADAPTING TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW — At a time when the pandemic highlights collective vulnerability and the limits of our environment, the integration of new needs could allow designers, architects, and urban planners to redefine personal, shared, and collective spaces. A revaluation of our environmental achievements becomes necessary when...

Architecture & Design

Entre atmosphères et émotions | la création architecturale réfléchie

Between Atmospheres and Emotions | The Thoughtful Architectural Creation

Karianne Duquette, architectural collaborator

TIMELESS MUSE Omnipresent in our lives, architecture influences both our physical and spiritual sensations. It touches us with its characteristic expression and arouses specific emotions in us. In particular, let us consider the solemn nature that takes hold of us when we enter a religious building, the impression of serenity...

Between Atmospheres and Emotions | The Thoughtful Architectural Creation

Karianne Duquette, architectural collaborator

TIMELESS MUSE Omnipresent in our lives, architecture influences both our physical and spiritual sensations. It touches us with its characteristic expression and arouses specific emotions in us. In particular, let us consider the solemn nature that takes hold of us when we enter a religious building, the impression of serenity...

Architecture & Design

Quand le design éveille la curiosité | Des espaces de travail qui inspirent

When Design Awakens Curiosity | Workspaces that Inspire

Maxime Hébert

REINVENTING NORMS Beauty awakens inspiration. Some employers have understood this and don’t hesitate to rely on the layout of their offices to promote well-being, inspiration, and creativity. In the era of happiness at work and fulfillment, the layout, design, and originality of workspaces take on their full meaning. Let’s turn...

When Design Awakens Curiosity | Workspaces that Inspire

Maxime Hébert

REINVENTING NORMS Beauty awakens inspiration. Some employers have understood this and don’t hesitate to rely on the layout of their offices to promote well-being, inspiration, and creativity. In the era of happiness at work and fulfillment, the layout, design, and originality of workspaces take on their full meaning. Let’s turn...

Architecture & Design

Vivre l’émotion architecturale

Experiencing Architectural Emotion

Voyageurs du monde

TRAVELLING THE WORLD — The prism of emotions that architecture can inspire isn’t well known. However, architecture is an art that can trigger astonishment, joy, passion, and curiosity. Like great works of art, the most amazing monuments inspire a strong feeling of fullness and delight. The form of certain buildings...

Experiencing Architectural Emotion

Voyageurs du monde

TRAVELLING THE WORLD — The prism of emotions that architecture can inspire isn’t well known. However, architecture is an art that can trigger astonishment, joy, passion, and curiosity. Like great works of art, the most amazing monuments inspire a strong feeling of fullness and delight. The form of certain buildings...

Architecture & Design

Cittaslow | Ces villes qui prennent une pause

Cittaslow | The Cities That Take It Easy

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, Environmental Designer

COMMUNITY MOVEMENT Current trends make our homes antidotes to the speed of our lives, places where we can take refuge and recover. More than just an aesthetic for our interiors, the Danish hygge (a concept that comes from a Norwegian word meaning “well thought out”) or the Japanese wabi-sabi (the...

Cittaslow | The Cities That Take It Easy

Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse, Environmental Designer

COMMUNITY MOVEMENT Current trends make our homes antidotes to the speed of our lives, places where we can take refuge and recover. More than just an aesthetic for our interiors, the Danish hygge (a concept that comes from a Norwegian word meaning “well thought out”) or the Japanese wabi-sabi (the...

Architecture & Design

Puiser à la source | La réappropriation créative

Drawing from the source | Recapturing creativity

Érika Marcil, Interior Design Project Manager

ANCRAGE — Designated as an internationally renowned place of excellence by design et al, Strøm Vieux-Québec is a place of inspiration and vision that reflects the site on which it was built, with meticulous attention to every detail. Drawing inspiration to create is what Strøm achieves, in Quebec City and...

Drawing from the source | Recapturing creativity

Érika Marcil, Interior Design Project Manager

ANCRAGE — Designated as an internationally renowned place of excellence by design et al, Strøm Vieux-Québec is a place of inspiration and vision that reflects the site on which it was built, with meticulous attention to every detail. Drawing inspiration to create is what Strøm achieves, in Quebec City and...

Architecture & Design

Copenhague | Le bien-être, un concept danois

Copenhagen – The Danish Concept of Well-Being

Karine Too

GREEN, RELIABLE, SUSTAINABLE – Copenhagen is a booming city in which people are settling in more and more. Although the concentration of the population in urban centres is not a new phenomenon, the positioning of the Danish capital as a « healthy city, » mainly through its public policies focused on the...

Copenhagen – The Danish Concept of Well-Being

Karine Too

GREEN, RELIABLE, SUSTAINABLE – Copenhagen is a booming city in which people are settling in more and more. Although the concentration of the population in urban centres is not a new phenomenon, the positioning of the Danish capital as a « healthy city, » mainly through its public policies focused on the...

Architecture & Design

Le langage de la rive

Conversing with the shoreline

Maxime Hébert

The environment in which a building is located is the main driving force behind the architectural project. A site is first and foremost a parcel of land with boundaries established by regulations, but beyond its legal limits, there is also a cultural context, a territorial ecosystem, a regional climate, a...

Conversing with the shoreline

Maxime Hébert

The environment in which a building is located is the main driving force behind the architectural project. A site is first and foremost a parcel of land with boundaries established by regulations, but beyond its legal limits, there is also a cultural context, a territorial ecosystem, a regional climate, a...

Architecture & Design

Le design d’intérieur | un art à l’écoute du lieu

Interior design | an art that listens to the place

Maxime Hébert

Interior design: a universe where the project manager immerses himself in the understanding of the interaction between the customer and the space that he or she uses or lives in. Navigating between and exploring different solutions, the ultimate goal is to find the perfect blend of functionality, ergonomics and aesthetics....

Interior design | an art that listens to the place

Maxime Hébert

Interior design: a universe where the project manager immerses himself in the understanding of the interaction between the customer and the space that he or she uses or lives in. Navigating between and exploring different solutions, the ultimate goal is to find the perfect blend of functionality, ergonomics and aesthetics....