Glamour by Krystal Beauty
A 4,200 ft² salon and spa fit-up, designed and approved on a fast track to open in under six months.
Commercial architecture and tenant fit-ups
Retail stores, salons, spas, offices and specialised buildings. Commercial clients usually have an opening date or lease to meet, so we plan approvals and construction around it.
What we design
Spaces built around how a business runs.
- Fit-ups on a deadline. Glamour by Krystal Beauty reused an existing layout and fast-tracked approvals to open a 4,200 ft² salon and spa in under six months.
- Experience-led interiors. Float Spa is planned as a gradual removal of stimuli, with a perforated screen wall that DAO designed and built.
- Brand standards in existing space. The Pandora store in Sudbury adapts an international brand's standards to an existing mall storefront.
- Additions over existing buildings. Headquarters studied an office cantilevered over a working warehouse.
- Specialised buildings in mass timber. Our helicopter hangar proposal overlapped approvals and timber fabrication to meet a 10-month deadline.
Questions
Common questions
How early should a tenant contact an architect?
Before you sign, ideally. A short review of the layout, services and code requirements shows what the fit-up involves and how long approvals may take.
Can you work to a fixed opening date?
Often, yes. Reusing existing walls and structure, phasing the work and running approvals alongside design all shorten the schedule. That's how Krystal Beauty opened in under six months.
Do you do interior design?
Yes, as part of the architectural scope on commercial projects, as at Krystal Beauty and Float Spa.
Commercial projects
Float Spa
A sensory-deprivation spa planned as a gradual removal of stimuli, with a perforated screen wall designed and built by DAO.
Helicopter Hangar
A mass timber A-frame hangar proposed for a 10-month design-and-build deadline using overlapping approvals and fabrication.
Headquarters
A second-storey office cantilevered in two directions over an existing warehouse, with rooftop equipment hidden in a new roof form.
Pandora
Retrofit of an existing mall storefront to the brand's international design standards.
Start a conversation
Have a site, a building or an idea? Tell us about it.
Email [email protected]. We work from Sudbury and Ottawa across Ontario.