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In a city that\u2019s embraced the art hotel, the listening bar<\/a>, the supper club and all manner of fusion cuisine, the arrival of SonoLux<\/a>, a contemporary art and music hotel, is nonetheless something new to Montreal<\/a>. Opening this week in a neoclassical building on a graceful Old City street, the business has a unique take on showing guests a good night. Aside from the 36 swaddled bedrooms are 10 exhibition spaces plus listening lounges, bars and a mood-lit restaurant called Lumi, which are specially designed to enhance mood, relaxation, stimulation and closeness. The lighting design is orchestrated by Solotech, responsible for lighting Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras Tour.<\/p>\n The whole production is impossible to perceive from the narrow street. Architects from local practice Geiger Huot<\/a> preserved the columned fa\u00e7ade of the former bank while opening the squeezed footprint to provide vaulted spaces that envelop and awe from the threshold. Zabb Design<\/a> collaborated on the interior look, flipping the classical script and carving out smooth, sound-dampened, cavernous rooms where warm, tactile materials are antidotes to the weather. They manage to feel earthy while at once futuristic.<\/p>\n