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Nespresso Montreal, Flagship store

Montreal’s Nespresso is one of the first “café-boutique” of this important European chain to be established in America. It also houses Nespresso's Canadian Headquarters. Hence, expectations were high regarding its new flagship, both from a marketing standpoint and because of its introduction to a new public.

Well-known for its coffees of carefully designed flavors, it was an obvious necessity for its planning to be as elegant as its notoriety. This is how Concept Consult Design (CCD) and Thibodeau Architecture + Design (TAD) came to unite their strengths. The result was to create a flowing and refined space in which subtle accents add life and dynamism. The visual homogeneity between the tasting area and the sale area helps erasing the visual barriers that could have easily been produced by the two-floors distribution. The curved lines and the transparency of the handrails reinforce this flowing sensation, attenuating the physical limits.

Building such a tailored endeavor, for which every detail is required to be attentively designed, creates its lot of challenges. It is however thanks to a close collaboration between TAD and its sister company Pan American Constructions Inc., as a “Design-Build” project, that it was possible to face the numerous difficulties while respecting a stringent time-schedule and the established budget. Indeed, the renovation of this heritage building brought its share of surprises with the structure, without nonetheless destabilizing the valiant multidisciplinary team's efforts to deliver a successful project.