Brightwood Brewery

The Brightwood Brewery Tap Room was part of a larger urban movement in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Due to a demographic migration of young adults from the Halifax Peninsula, an urban and economic revitalization followed. At the centre of this development was Portland Street, where a string of start-up businesses took root. Among these seminal businesses was the Brightwood Brewery. For this reason, when designing the Tap Room, it felt important to be highly contextual and rooted in place. It also had to be aligned with the young- professional demographic that now live there. The resulting Scandinavian inspired interior aims to appeal to this demographic and match Brightwood’s contemporaries like New Scotland Yard’s cafe, barbershop and record store. The interior design also includes a series of references to local landmarks like the Mackay Bridge and the Tufts Cove smoke stacks. What started as a basement brewery on Dartmouth’s Brightwood street, is now a local institution and a landmark itself.

Design: Peter Braithwaite Studio Ltd. (Peter Braithwaite, Jillian Ellis)

Construction: Peter Braithwaite Studio Ltd. (Ben Biggley, Tom Lutes, Peter Braithwaite)

Photograhy: Alexa Cude