La SHED Architecture

Is hardly a secret. With an office located in a corner depanneur in the Plateau district, founders Sébastien Parent, Yannick Laurin and Renée Mailhot – who met while studying at l’Université de Montréal – have left their mark across the city, with dozens of budget-smart renos that give Montreal’s beloved duplexes and triplexes a modern and refreshed reinterpretation. The firm’s work on more remote sites that are hidden among birch groves, for instance, are equally chic, with geometric forms clad in such off-the-shelf materials as cedar shingles. Sometimes, a coat of bright yellow paint is all they’ve added to give a room or passageway an urban lift.