On Site & Online
Truong Ly Design
A Toronto spatial design practice with global distribution
Residential · Hospitality · Senior Living · Commercial · Exhibition · OfficeToronto · Istanbul · Buenos Aires · Warsaw · Da Nang
02 — Selected Work
03 — Pulse
Pillars.
- Imperfection01
Alive.
- Patchwork02
Stitched. Layered
- Gradient03
Friction to flow.
- Asymmetry04
A little lean is honest.
- Distress05
Scar beautifully.
Always be a student of something.
04 — The Practice
The Practice — Spaces and Things
Principal-led Toronto-based spatial design practice with global distribution. Our work is inclusive of residential, hospitality, senior living, commercial, exhibition, and office. Different scales. Different programs. Same practice.
Say helloGlobally Distributed
Toronto
Istanbul
Buenos Aires
Warsaw
Da Nang
◦ The Team
Truong
Phương
Anna
Ayberk
Tareq
Olek
Nghia
Gabriel
Gillian
Aiko
Vivian
Dao
Mehul
Dong
Truong
Phương
Anna
Ayberk
Tareq
Olek
Nghia
Gabriel
Gillian
Aiko
Vivian
Dao
Mehul
Dong
◦ Ventures
A layout review tool.
AI virtual staging.
Objects and furniture.
A cinematic grading app.
05 — Notes
Field Notes — On Site, Process, and Travel
Mock Ups and Set Ups
Trying to remember all the details
Exhibits and Showrooms
HD Hospitality — upgrade specs
Results and Feedbacks
Lakeside reveal — full circle learning
Process & Presentations
Presentation day, show time, the stars
Perspectives and Lenses
See different to think different
Travels and Lessons
BDNY — "working" and "learning"
Communication and Relationship
On-site coordination, tower rising
Staging and Documenting
Material moments, quiet conversations
Learning and Noting
Constant room for improvements
Walkthroughs and Reveals
Always team work
Install Days
Unboxing & staging
On Site & Online
Review and refine
Mock Ups and Set Ups
Trying to remember all the details
Exhibits and Showrooms
HD Hospitality — upgrade specs
Results and Feedbacks
Lakeside reveal — full circle learning
Process & Presentations
Presentation day, show time, the stars
Perspectives and Lenses
See different to think different
Travels and Lessons
BDNY — "working" and "learning"
Communication and Relationship
On-site coordination, tower rising
Staging and Documenting
Material moments, quiet conversations
Learning and Noting
Constant room for improvements
Walkthroughs and Reveals
Always team work
Install Days
Unboxing & staging
Thinking out loud!
The Borrowed Ruler
The only ranking that matters is the one no competitor is measuring.
More →The Quiet Industrial Complex
The most aggressively marketed posture of the decade is the posture of being unmarketed.
More →Flexible Bones
People move. Buildings stay. The gap is where the money goes — and where the design decisions that matter actually live.
More →The Trickle
Two industries have shaped architecture more than most of us tend to notice: the automobile and fashion. Both arrive disguised as taste.
More →Recognition
We are not introducing memory, time, asymmetry, wear, and imperfection into our spaces. We are removing the things that suppress them.
More →Clay to Dust
The practice is not what you do to the body. The practice is what you do because you were given a body.
More →The Weight of a Story
What would our work look like if every story behind it had to answer for its own weight, or admit it has none?
More →AI x Philosophy = Creativity
The more technologically advanced AI becomes, the more philosophically provocative we have to become.
More →On What Is Always There
The value of a thing rarely lives in the thing itself. It lives in the encounter between the thing and the person meeting it.
More →The more I learn, the less I know.
Reach Out — Contact Truong Ly Design
06 / ReachIf there's a fit, we'll find it.
Send the site, the program, the timelinehello@truongly.comThe first conversation is about fit and scope. No design work, no commitment.