Experiential design

OCAD University, formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design, is Canada’s oldest school for art and design. Entro designed the donor recognition wall - a centrepiece for the new Sharp Centre for Design.   An artistic interpretation of the colour spectrum, the donor wall works well within the established environment of OCAD U and generates a dynamic quality that attracts traffic to the panel and inspires viewers. More

Entro designed a donor recognition program, environmental graphics, and a signage system to echo the stunning architecture of the SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning.   The glass donor wall, designed by Entro, not only serves as a beautiful contrast to the wooden interior of the lobby, it acts as a donor-recognition wall, displaying names of individual benefactors and groups within a grid system.   The wall treatments spanning three stories capture scientific themes in abstract, artistic forms and connect with different research areas: Brain Research, Cancer Stem Cells Biology, and Genetic Diseases. The scientific images of brain cells, genomic patterns, and cancer cells were interpreted as art... More

The revitalization of the Munich Re office was aimed at fostering greater collaboration and creativity. The environmental graphics program plays a key role in supporting this strategy. Design is inspired by the parks and gardens popular to Munich, Germany, where the company headquarters are located.   Expressed through a photo collage that portrays a forest-like scene as if looking skyward, thin white bands are positioned purposefully within the space to lighten the overall density of the graphics.   The environment resembles the gardens, creating a relaxed, social atmosphere protected by a leafy canopy with dappled light peeking through. More

Entro designed wayfinding and placemaking programs for the RBC Centre, recently voted one of Toronto’s 10 most important new structures of the last decade by the Toronto Star, and RBC Waterpark Place on Queen's Quay, a sleek modern 31-storey highrise featuring open concept offices, flexible workplaces and a conference centre.   As office spaces continue to evolve to accommodate new age groups, technologies and workstyles, RBC was looking to create a positive use experience that supports modern priorities within the context of a branded environment.   The interior building graphics bring the space to life, ensure an inviting atmosphere, and create visual interest. Abstract graphics based on geometric shapes... More

Humber College is a leading postsecondary institution that is made up of three campuses, serving over 29,000 full-time students. At their North campus in Etobicoke the College was looking to recognize donors in a sophisticated and engaging way. Entro's recognition program showcases the important support of donors, and expresses the College’s appreciation for this support.   A series of seamlessly integrated touch screens introduces an interactive component that provides more in-depth information about individual donors, funds raised, and project initiatives. The style and format of the program allows for expansion, while recognizing donor support in a unique and dignified manner.   Taking inspiration from t... More

The University of Waterloo Pharmacy Building houses the pharmacy school, a medical centre, and is a hub of activity for the university and the community of Kitchener.   Entro's exterior façade mosaic, built within the glass and aluminum structure of the façade, consists of flower patterns inspired by 17th-century botanical drawings. These flower patterns interwoven within the glass create a rhythm and mood that is not only beautiful, but reflective of the organic and holistic approach of the school.   Toronto Star architecture critic Christopher Hume named it one of Southern Ontario’s most influential buildings. A bright anchor among old warehouses, the building played a major role in reviving... More

Parkades are perceived by many to be unsafe, unfriendly, back of house experiences. At Enbridge Centre, the desire of the owners, Pangman Development Corporation and John Day Developments, was to counter this perception by considering the parking environment as carefully as other elements of the tower development, to make it a positive, safe and user-friendly experience.   The architectural and engineering design of the parkade answered many issues through better lighting, finishes and clear sight lines to the tower shuttle elevators. Entro responded by creating a thematic approach to wayfinding that would positively enliven the space and provide for better orientation. The concept is a celebration of the car itself – b... More

Entro turned to the use of vibrant colours, inspired by a community’s cultural richness and the hues used by a famous group of local painters, to help animate and create a new community space dedicated to the arts. Located just outside of Toronto, Weston Common’s Artscape Hub was created to build on the community’s existing creativity and cultural richness, offering a new and vibrant central gathering place for people to come together to create, learn and celebrate the arts both indoors and outdoors.   Featuring over 20,000 sqf of space for art studios, gatherings and community events, the project also adds new housing to the area with 360 rental apartments for the public and 26 affordable live/work spaces for artis... More

“LIBERAL WITH LEGACY” After 40 prestigious years representing worldwide as a royal Thai cuisine ambassador, Blue Elephant group, having six restaurants in five countries, two cooking schools, and a premium Thai grocery supply business, launched its first mall restaurant ‘Thai Brasserie by Blue Elephant’ in Phuket to open doors to wider groups of Thai food admirers. The identity and spatial experience of this outlet are a blueprint to the overseas expansion of an unaccustomed fast-casual Thai restaurant concept, adopting a vibrant, experimental, and dynamic gastronomy execution presented with the legacy of Blue Elephant.    Studio Locomotive communicates through the experiential space these aspiring busin... More

“THE GASTRONOMIC EXCURSION ON THE CULTURAL RHYTHM”   Saffron Cruise, a 38-meter-long dining riverboat, is the first branch on-water of an international hospitality brand Banyan Tree’s celebrated Thai restaurant Saffron and the first cruise on Chao Phraya River to host full MICE functions. Offering two gastronomic excursion styles, a rooftop Moon Deck featuring an oval-shaped bar and an indoor dining deck highlighting a live kitchen and extensive curving skylights for an optimal view taking, Saffron Cruise becomes a perfect ride to appreciate the confluence of an authentic Thai culinary delicacy and Thailand’s capital landmarks such as Temple of Dawn, The Grand Palace, and Rama VIII Bridge, evidencing a three-c... More

“THE NARRATIVE TO AN ANCESTRAL FOLKTALE OF THE COCONUT ISLAND”Fascinating oriental flavors complement a wondrous experience playing out at KOKO Restaurant, a dining outlet of The Village Coconut Island Resort Phuket serving self-service breakfast, casual gastronomic dinner, to midnight cocktails.  From a forgotten native folktale of a misfortunate fisherman, believed to be Coconut Island’s pioneer, who was saved ashore after a boat wreck accident by hugging a floating coconut to the island, Studio Locomotive made assumptions further towards his surviving journey and settlement that latter became the design concept of KOKO Restaurant; the fisherman discovered a freshwater pond in this ‘cave’ and decided to... More

FESTIVAL CULTURE GIOVANI LIVE CITY SECTION 1968: sharing journey, relations, interactions, re-appropriation, strength of the imagination, participation, physicality, criticism and dialectics, research into personal and collection happiness through the political action. The action/expression of Archabout at Salerno from the title “the journey” aims to extrapolate those values which are deprived of those connotations that are closely linked to that historical period in a cathartic process to being lowered at the current time with a renewed positive and pro-positive worth aimed at the construction of the spaces of the new Polis. “Cross history as you cross the city…” M.Locci  Contents of the artistic an... More

“THE EVOCATIVE TRACES TO THE OLD TOWN TAKUA PA” The pride in her status as ‘Baba-Nyonya’ 峇峇娘惹 (The descendants from the interethnic marriage of the Chinese settlers and native inhabitants of Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago) is an impression that we, Studio Locomotive, have collected from meeting with ‘Mother’ (the member of the project’s owner family) during the making of ‘Hotel Gahn’ through her dressing in a floral laced blouse, batik sarong, beaded slippers, and fine antique gold jewelry, her home-cooking recipe, and her reminiscences of the ways of living in her hometown.   The mother’s ancestry traced to her grandfather during a prosperous time of tin mining... More

Artscape Daniels Launchpad, a new arts-focused co-working facility, blends diverse artist and maker studios with entrepreneurial training programs and resources to support the incubator's unique focus on creative entrepreneurship and business development. Strategically located in Daniels City of Arts, a new office condominium building overlooking Lake Ontario in Toronto's emerging East Bayfront, the facility situates its members in a community of creativity and innovation.   Artscape asked Quadrangle to transform the new 35,000 square foot facility into a luminous, accessible, and tech-enabled interior that would inspire creativity and professionalism in equal measure. “One challenge presented by the project”, says Quadra... More