This penthouse was conceived as a cosy space for living and displaying the client’s collection of art and natural artifacts. Positioned on the tower’s northwest side, the two-story unit features expansive views of English Bay and the North Shore Mountains, which the designers hoped to weave into a layered and balanced environment that looked both inward and outward.

Through an iterative design process, the studio and client arrived at a highly bespoke, biophilic design that is attuned to the passage of time. Using the owner’s daily routinesituals as a guide, the designers sequenced the interior to maximize views and quality of light.

The half-turn open stair features a copper-laced, firefly-like Bocci lighting installation made up of hand-selected, multicolored glass elements in pink, orange, umber, green, and blue. It leads to the second-floor master suite that opens onto a vista of the surrounding water.

The penthouse’s first-level kitchen, dining, and living spaces look ontoare set aglow by the Vancouver city lights.

In the living room, modular, multidirectional seatingfurnishings resemble landscape formations, supportsing guests’ various postures and orientations.

A restrained material palette characterizes the interiorproject, and setsting a rich, organic background for the client’s impressive displays of art and artifacts from her travels. American black walnut makes up millwork in the living, kitchen, and bath areas, and is also seen in stair treads. Modern, blackened-steel accents run throughout. Floors, which feature radiant heating, are made of creamy travertine mare bianco, as are the custom-milled sinks in the bathrooms. Smoky fior de bosco marble linesgraces powder-room walls.