“Good ideas never come from a single person,” says Paul Sabourin. “They come from putting your heads together until you find the right approach.” Mr. Sabourin sounds a bit like an architect; in fact, he is the chairman and chief investment officer of Polar Asset Management Partners in Toronto. But the hedge fund firm recently channeled the expertise of the architecture and interiors firm MJMA into a new space that, like a design studio, facilitates collaboration and creative thinking.
The 25,000-square-foot space occupies a full floor in a new 32-story office tower in Toronto’s downtown. The building, designed by locally based B+H Architects, is coolly corporate in feel: curtain wall wraps a column-and-slab concrete structure. But MJMA’s team strived to make the Polar spaces feel “intimate, even domestic,” says the firm’s interior-design lead, Sean Solowski, employing a tight palette of materials, emphasized by soft-touch felt walls and white oak.
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