n the heart of Toronto’s vibrant Liberty Village neighbourhood sits the newly re-imagined Canadian Headquarters for Plus Company, a collection of individual creative agencies each offering a unique approach and expertise all under one roof.

The Plus Company HQ is designed from the ground up to be a space for collaboration, and since its re-opening it has done exactly this, exceeding occupancy expectations for the true-hybrid-work oriented office and as a result, redefining the contemporary office design landscape. Through its welcoming and thoughtful design, the Plus Company office serves as a gathering place which allows the collective’s creative minds to do their best work in an environment that suits their needs.

ALULA is proud to have provided lighting design for the 50,000 ft² office, utilising our expertise to illuminate the broad range of spaces such as meeting zones, collaboration areas, and lounges areas, and specialty studios.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Lebel & Bouliane
Photographer: Tom Arban
Completion: 2024

ALULA Lighting Design provided lighting design services for the renovation of the Lobby (approximately 9,800ft²) and Concourse Area (approximately 29,200ft²), including South Food court, North Food court, and Lower Concourse / QSR Corridor, at Simcoe Place in downtown Toronto.

Collaborating closely with Benoy (formerly GH+A), lighting for the project were designed to be architecturally integrated as much as possible in the intricate ceiling and wall cove design, providing an energetic sense of light for the below ground concourse food court area. Additional adjustable accents were used throughout to “punch” spots of light at dining area and architectural features to introduce an additional layer of sparkle to the space.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Client: Cadillac Fairview
Designer: Benoy (formerly GH+A)
Completion: 2024

ALULA Lighting Design provided the lighting design for the 23,000 sq.ft. corporate office of Platform Insurance located at Brookfield Place in the heart of downtown Toronto. The project encompasses a single entire floor plate at Brookfield Place in Toronto, and includes offices, meeting spaces, and other various amenities. The amenity spaces are designed to feature elements to evokes a hospitality feel - something that encourages a sense of home and belonging for both employees and clients

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Arcadis
Photographer: Ben Rahn/A-Frame & ALULA Lighting Design
Completion: 2023

ALULA Lighting Design provided specialized lighting for the 51,000 ft² Mattamy Homes Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Office and Design Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The project includes a showroom, model suite vinguettes, office spaces, meeting and boardrooms, employee lounges, and collaborative work spaces with the focus placed on green living and healthy work environments.

Location: Mississauga, Canada
Architect: ACI Wright Architects
Interior Design: Connect Resource Managers and Partners Inc.
Photographer: Steve Tsai
Completion 2023

ALULA Lighting Design provided specialized lighting for the digital content studio, Jam3, located in the podium floors of Plant Condominium in Toronto.

Designed by architects Lebel & Bouliane, the space was designed to be flexible space that can adapt to Jam3’s needs. Focus was placed on collaborative spaces, open studios, semi-open studios and informal and closed formal meeting spaces.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Lebel & Bouliane
Photographer: Tom Arban
Completion: 2023

ALULA Lighting Design provided lighting design for the 37,000 ft² Akelius Canada Office in downtown Toronto, located within a historic 4-storey masonry and heavy timber building built in the early 1900’s. As part of the open concept renovation, updates were done to accommodate new reception, open office, meeting rooms, collaboration spaces, lunchroom and the new rooftop terrace. Tunable white LED lighting were used throughout the project to allow occupants the ability to control correlated colour temperature (CCT) temperature from a warm 2700K to a cool 5700K to simulate the natural colour temperatures throughout the day and through different times of the year.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: WZMH Architects
Photographer: Ruta Kraujutyte
Completion: 2022

ALULA Lighting Design provided the lighting design for the 50,500 ft² corporate office for a healthcare provider in Markham, Ontario. The project spans across 4 floors and includes 6,200 ft² of swing space to facilitate the renovation.

Location: Markham, Canada
Interior Designer: IBI Group
Photographer: Ben Rahn/A-Frame
Completion: 2022

ALULA Lighting Design, in conjunction with HIDI Calgary, provided lighting design service for CBRE’s 15,000 ft² office that was recently relocated to the 32nd floor of Eighth Avenue Place in Calgary, Alberta. ALULA provided lighting design services and in depth calculations and analysis in a joint effort with the entire design team to achieve credits and requirements for WELL v2 certification. This project is the second project in Canada to be awarded WELL v2 Platinum Certification.

Location: Calgary, Canada
Interior Designer: SHEARER Licensed Interior Design Inc Photographer: Jamie Bezemer
Completion: 2021

Opening in time for the 2021-2022 NHL season, the new Sportsnet Studios, located within the Rogers Communications Downtown Campus encompasses 20,400 ft². Designed by BDP Quadrangle the television broadcast studios was carved out of an existing floor plate that was prior used as office space and includes two broadcast studios, washrooms, storage rooms, rack rooms and two temporary control rooms with 2 new audio rooms. The project was split into two phases, first phase involving a feasibility study and second involving the design and build out.

ALULA Lighting Design provided architectural lighting for the project.

Architect: BDP Quadrangle
Location: Toronto, Canada
Photographer: Sportsnet
Completion: 2021

ALULA Lighting Design provided lighting design for the Rogers 333 Bloor - 3rd Floor conference Centre and Agile NH Space.

This new 29,500 ft² space is utilized as an amenity type floor, with the West side of the floor dedicated as a conference facility, and the East side planned for hoteling area and agile project workspace, including prep kitchen to assist the conference area.

The conference area will be used for internal training, on-boarding, and internal/external client meetings.

The project was in collaboration with HOK Canada in Toronto.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Interior Designer: HOK
Photographer: Karl Hipolito
Completion: 2021

CF Toronto Eaton Centre Shopping Mall latest repurposing project was to convert the current space (former head office of Sears Canada) into a new office space for Cadillac Fairview’s incoming tenant BMO. The Sears store occupied floors from level 6 to 9 with a total approximate rental area of 350,000 ft². With Queen’s Quay Architects International, Alula Lighting Design provided lighting design for the project.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Queen’s Quay Architects International
Interior Designer: Gensler
Photographer: Aframe Photography
Completion: 2021

ALULA Lighting Design provided lighting design for the Rogers Centre for Excellence. The project consisted of a total of 15,000 ft², located on the 3rd floor of Huntley Expansion at 1 Mount Pleasant Road, it also includes a redundant data centre for Sportnet in the basement of 333 Bloor. The Master Control Room is approximately 4,100 ft² while the computer room takes up roughly 2,400 ft² with an expansion of 1,100 ft².

Designed by Quadrangle Architects, Rogers Centre for Excellence was part of a larger master planning venture which allowed the merging of Rogers’s master control facilities which handled television, events and radio into one open plan design. The one of the key features of the open plan is to create the ability for staff members to monitor signals from anywhere within the space, which grants the ability adapt to support special programming without interfering with the day to day broadcasting operations.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: BDP Quadrangle
Photography: Courtesy of BDP Quadrangle
Completion: 2018

Nestled in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, this 100,000 ft² Capital One head office spans 5 floor plates accommodating approximately 700 associates.

The dynamic workspace breaks away from the mold of traditional office design, and takes its design lead from bold hospitality projects. Black and vibrant colour finishes are used liberally in various share spaces such as reception, collaborative hubs, meeting rooms, and conference rooms to evoke the innovation and humanity for which the company stands.  Alula Lighting Design lighting collaborated with IBI Group, to create lighting solutions that complements the office aesthetic while furnishing the additional light levels required accommodating the dark finishes.

The interior design also plays with five unique workspace concepts spread out over the five floors to represent the diverse strategy and knowledge of the company. These concepts are nonetheless seamlessly woven together to represent the firm’s collaborative culture. The lighting naturally follows this logic, where the lighting design, fixture selection, and even down to finishes and details are differentiated between floors to be unique in their own right, yet feature continuous elements that resonate from floor to floor.

Open office areas are illuminated utilizing customized 750mm x 750mm direct- indirect LED troffers with integral air supply and return. Light level, layout, and fixture efficiency were fine tuned to optimize the balance between delivered light levels and power consumption.

Given the diverse lighting types, functional spaces, and architectural nuances of the project, lighting controls play a vital role in meeting occupants’ functional needs. The wireless digital lighting control system provides occupants with maximum control flexibility. The controls are also crucial for energy savings, as the project is targeting LEED Gold certification. A 0.57W/sf lighting power density was delivered on this project, and is well within the targeted LPD levels as required by local codes, while maintaining IES recommended light levels. The project was completed within schedule and budget.

The project received an Award of Merit for the IES Illumination Award for Interior Lighting Design in 2019.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Interior Designer: IBI Group
Photographer: Ben Rahn/A-Frame
Completion: 2018

ALULA Lighting Design provided lighting design for the new Sidewalk Labs Toronto HQ which included 2 floors of interior space in the existing 307 Lakeshore Blvd E. building, totaling approximately 13,000 ft². The Space consisted of reception, open offices area, meeting rooms, lounges, open collaboration spaces, and open workspaces (workshop). The project was in collaboration with Toronto based architects Lebel & Bouliane.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Lebel & Bouliane
Photographer: Pooya Aledavood & Adrien Williams
Completion: 2018

Bensimon Byrne is Canada’s largest independent creative agency. It is composed of three brands – Bensimon Byrne and Narrative PR – and a dynamic team of over 200. ALULA collaborated with Lebel & Bouliane to provide lighting design for the agency’s new 50,000 ft² space within the famed CBC building in Toronto’s downtown core.

The space, which formerly housed CBC recording studios, features varied ceiling heights of up to 28’, facilitating the development of unique creative, lounge, play, and work spaces that reflect the distinct character of this dynamic agency.

The project received an Award of Merit for the IES Illumination Award for Interior Lighting Design in 2018

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Lebel & Bouliane
Photographer: Adrien Williams
Completion: 2017

ALULA collaborated with Lebel & Bouliane to provide lighting design for One Method’s new 50,000 ft² space within the famed CBC building in Toronto’s downtown core.

The space, which formerly housed CBC recording studios, features varied ceiling heights of up to 28’, facilitating the development of unique creative, lounge, play, and work spaces that reflect the distinct character of this dynamic agency.

The project received an Award of Merit for the IES Illumination Award for Interior Lighting Design in 2018

Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Lebel & Bouliane
Photographer: Adrien Williams
Completion: 2017

Rogers Communications has launched a multi-year transformation project set to redefine the communications giant as one of the top places to work in the nation. Innovative, collaborative and agile, the redeveloped Rogers corporate offices – aptly branded ‘Sharespace’ – will act as a state-of-the-art ‘hub’ that propels a shift in corporate culture.

ALULA provided lighting design for the Brampton and Toronto workplace transformations. The Brampton renewal, involves the conversation of a 3-storey, 1 million ft² warehouse over multiple projects to allow unaffected spaces to be occupied throughout. The first phase measures 400,000 ft² and features new offices with repositionable modular workspace, collaboration zones, raised mezzanines, a green wall, modern cafeteria and back-of-house food preparation space with an edgy and contemporary aesthetic that ushers in the next generation of Rogers Communications.

Location: Brampton, Canada
interior Designer: HOK
Completion: 2017

ALULA provided lighting design for the 30,000 ft² TED Café, part of the multi-year workplace transformation project for Rogers. 

This modern cafeteria consists of 5 unique food stations including a bakery, beverage bar, pizza & pasta station, pan-Asian cuisine station, deli & salad bar, and rotisserie and grill station

Location: Brampton, Canada
Interior Designer: HOK
Completion: 2017