Venue TwentyTwo at the Westin Hotel Ottawa
Venue TwentyTwo occupies the 22nd floor of the Westin Ottawa: 3,200 square feet wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass, with a 270-degree panorama taking in Parliament Hill, the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills. Flux Lighting worked with HOK on the lighting.
A view like that sets the terms, and the terms are restraint. Anything heavy overhead would compete with the window, so the scheme runs linear fixtures along the beams and ceiling — tracing the architecture rather than interrupting the glass. They read as lines of light rather than as objects, and the eye keeps moving outward, which is the entire point of putting a room up there.
The second requirement was range. A glass ballroom hosts weddings, receptions, launches and working sessions, often in the same week, and lighting that flatters one will undercut another. Colour tuning lets the room change character on demand: an expressive wash of colour for a celebration, something warm and restrained for a dinner, neutral and clear when people actually need to see each other’s slides. The fixtures never move. The room does.
Design by HOK.
Photography by Dwayne Brown Studio.
