Pomerleau Offices in Lévis, Canada by Lemay

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Lemay also redefined the language of the office environment, with a wealth of attractive, informal gathering spaces encouraging teamwork and synergy. The building’s few closed offices are central, with open-area workstations and floor-to-ceiling windows lining the periphery, for maximum penetration of natural light and stunning forest views: a proven way to enhance employee productivity and well-being.

Pomerleau Offices Main entrance, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

• Architects: Lemay
• Project: Pomerleau Offices
• Location: Lévis, Canada
• Photography: Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Common areas are positioned strategically throughout the indoor environment. Attractive places to gather and share ideas, the fully glazed meeting rooms encourage teamwork while coffee stations become informal meeting places to socialize, helping to foster the company’s collaborative core values and a natural synergy. The central hall is the convergence point of the three wings, defining the building’s reception, main staircase and a meeting room. It overlooks the courtyard in the foreground and the forest beyond.

Pomerleau Offices, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

“We made the forest a defining feature of the project,” said Eric Pelletier, Lemay partner, design principal and project lead.

“The extra-large windows frame the lush greenery and bring it inside.”

The edgy new work environment won over the 2017 AAP Jury with its “Design Excellence, Innovation and Function” in the Industrial category.

Pomerleau Offices Interior, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Interior Main Entrance, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Two other Lemay projects just earned AAP recognition through honourable mentions, as well.

It’s a fourth nod for the harmoniously integrated downtown Montmagny Library (in the Infrastructure category), which won a Wood Design Award in the Heritage category this year from Cecobois, the centre of expertise in commercial wood construction, and a 2015 Architecture Award from the Quebec Library Association. Notable for its eloquent melding of new construction with an existing former presbytery, the library was also a runner-up in the Quebec order of architects’ Institutional and Public Buildings category in 2015.

Pomerleau Offices Interior, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Workspace, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

It’s a first honourable mention for the sensational Paquet Wharf and Esplanade in Lévis, Quebec, with its monumental fountain. What was a barren, post-industrial ferry wharf has been transformed into a landmark and a grand entrance to the City of Lévis: an international cruise ship wharf, a tourist attraction, a historic interpretation site and a local gathering space. It was in the running in the Public Architecture category.

Pomerleau Offices Workspace, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Workspace, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Lemay’s much-awarded Bibliothèque du Boisé won two American Architecture Prizes in 2016, the award’s first year – one for Institutional Architecture and one for Cultural Architecture.

About Lemay: Creative Intelligence. Collective Value.
Founded in 1957 as an architectural practice, Lemay is one of Canada’s leading integrated design services firms, merging architecture, urban design, interiors, landscape, engineering, sustainability and branding into a multidisciplinary and synergistic ensemble. With 10 offices worldwide (including one in New York since 2015), it ranks 79th in the world (World Architecture). Lemay has won over 300 awards and distinctions. Leveraging its unique blend of creativity, capacity and expertise, Lemay champions its clients’ aspirations, enhances users’ quality of life and strives to build a brighter future for our communities.

Pomerleau Offices Interior, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Workspace, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Interior, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Staircase, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Pomerleau Offices Staircase, Image Courtesy © Jonathan Robert

Tags: Canada, Lévis

Categories: Office Building, Office space, Offices

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