Meet architectural storytellers Yabu Pushelberg: Your Next Employer?

2022-06-20T08:10:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to Seattle’s LMN Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series across the border to Toronto, Canada, where we find high-end designers Yabu Pushelberg.

Founded in 1980 in Ontario by business and life partners George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, the firm has grown over three decades from its interior design routes to now encompass carefully crafted architecture, interiors, landscapes, lighting, products, graphics and branding.

Now counting over one hundred members across their Toronto and New York offices, the firm is currently hiring for a Senior Interior Designer position on Archinect Jobs.

George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg. Photo by Thomas Whiteside. Image via Facebook

For the firm’s founders, Yabu Pushelberg’s origin in interior design was crucial for teaching them about the importance of environments. Today, this value has been translated across high-end hospitality and retail design projects, with the added emphasis of infusing stories ...

Featuring a rippling glass facade by SANAA, the fully restored La Samaritaine department store opens in Paris after 16 years

2021-06-24T15:16:00-04:00

The overhauled La Samaritaine department store is now open in Paris after an $894 million restoration that has kept the building closed since 2005.

The new Samaritaine features a rippling glass veiled facade, covered patios, repaired skylights, and an updated 1907 roof that gives the shopping center's restored interior an opulent feel.

Japanese firm SANAA worked to restore the Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings for LVHM with help from Canadian studio Yabu Pushelberg. The new Samaritaine Pont-Neuf building will now serve as a luxury shopping destination in a 19th-century retail space itself reconstructed a century ago by architect Frantz Jourdain.

The newly restored buildings had once been host to an unprofitable venture and will now feature contrasting retail spaces, with three floors aimed delibera...

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Meet architectural storytellers Yabu Pushelberg: Your Next Employer?

Featuring a rippling glass facade by SANAA, the fully restored La Samaritaine department store opens in Paris after 16 years