Canadian Commercial Corporation
The Canadian Commercial Corporation is Canada’s government-to-government contracting agency — a Crown corporation, in operation since 1946, that connects Canadian exporters with foreign governments buying defence, aerospace, infrastructure and ICT. Its head office fills the 11th floor of Constitution Square Tower II at 350 Albert Street, a few minutes’ walk from Parliament Hill. Flux specified the luminaires and designed the control system for the fit-up, to an interior by LWG Architectural Interiors. LWG set out to make a floor that reads as quiet confidence — Canadian modesty carrying a global brief — and the lighting had to agree with that. Nothing here announces itself. The interior was shortlisted for a 2025 ARIDO Award in the Work category.
Circles instead of a grid
The repeating element is a circle. Seventy-two illuminated rings — Arancia MJ Circle surface luminaires in 36-, 48- and 60-inch diameters — are composed across the open office rather than gridded through it, sizes mixed and overlapping on a field of fine acoustic tile. They are made in Canada and assembled in segments on site, which is how a five-foot ring gets into an occupied downtown tower at all.
Where the floor wants a moment
Where the floor wants a moment instead of a field, it gets one. Marset Ihana stem pendants dim toward warm as they lower, and the amber glass of the Marset Bohemia marks the servery, hung inside a suspended oval skirted in fine metal mesh above a curved wood bar. Vibia Top sconces wash the wall, Luminart Dice doubles read as two soft lobes on the ceiling, and a Visual Comfort Architectural Collection Essence channel grazes the millwork.
The light that stays out of the way
The working light is deliberately unremarkable. 3G Lighting downlights serve the private offices and the CEO office, Liteline Luna downlights fill the feature room off the greeting desk, Eralux Mont Blanc troffers carry the back-of-house — help desk, storage, print and coffee — and Nova Flex LED tape turns the corners the extrusions cannot. All of it is 90 CRI, which is why the Canadian red running through the furniture reads as red and not as brick. Because the floor is open and hard-surfaced, the ceiling works acoustically as well as optically: felt-faced acoustic panels with light integrated into them, and a fitted acoustic ceiling over the servery and kitchen.
One wall, two rooms
The boardroom divides in two, and the light and the shades follow the wall. Partition sensors tell a Lutron Athena system which room it is now, and the zones, the scenes and eighteen Sivoia QS roller shades re-form on either side of the operable wall. Forty-eight Pico keypads and forty-four wireless occupancy sensors cover the rest of the floor, with daylight harvesting added after construction had already started — practical only because the sensors are battery-powered and wireless, so a late change meant mounting sensors rather than opening finished ceilings. Emergency and exit lighting covers life safety to code.
Design by LWG Architectural Interiors
Photography by Kevin Belanger.
