WL Design 25

WL Design 25 Winners 2026: Great Hall (V Residence Entry Hall)

A two-storey timber curtain wall turns the entry into a light-filled volume, with pendants floating overhead.

By Stacey McLachlan /
Project V Residence Entry Hall
Designer 1×1 Architecture
Collaborators KGS Group; Harris Builders; Martin Roy and Associates
Location Winnipeg
Category Room
Photography Lisa Stinner Kun

From the driveway of this Winnipeg home, the entry hall is what lead architect Jason Kun and lead interior designer Ashley Jull call “a glowing beacon”: on a snowy Prairie night, the glow is all the warmer. The exterior of the house, designed for a retired couple, has a charred shou sugi ban finish, disappearing against a black sky to allow the warm white oak flooring, ceiling cladding and elm stairs to shine through the two-storey Douglas fir timber curtain wall. Delicate pendant lights dance mid-air in the double-height volume. Of course, looking from the entryway to the surrounding landscape offers just as much beauty. Kun describes the setting with one word: “sublime.”

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V Residence entry hall at night by 1×1 Architecture, Winnipeg
Photo by Lisa Stinner Kun
Elm stair and warm white oak finishes in the V Residence entry hall, Winnipeg
Photo by Lisa Stinner Kun
Two-storey timber curtain wall connecting the V Residence entry hall to the main living areas
Photo by Lisa Stinner Kun
Pendant lights floating in the double-height volume of the V Residence entry hall, Winnipeg
Photo by Lisa Stinner Kun
Slat wall detail connecting the V Residence entry hall and dining area, Winnipeg
Photo by Lisa Stinner Kun

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Stacey McLachlan

Stacey McLachlan

Stacey is a senior editor at Western Living magazine, as well as editor-in-chief of sister publication Vancouver magazine. She loves window shopping on the job: send your home accessories and furniture recommendations over to [email protected]