Vela.

LIGHTING EVOKING the constellation whose name it shares, Vela - a restaurant and supper club new to Toronto's King West neighborhood - dazzles guests with a curving, illuminated ceiling that unfurls above them throughout the 4,000-square-foot space designed by local firm PARTISANS. The raw interior - in a 1904 brick-and-timber commercial-laundry building that more recently housed offices - had character, but was challenged with existing infrastructure that caused uneven and low ceiling heights. A composition of custom glass-fiber-reinforced-gypsum panels hung with airplane cable, the ceiling was carved with sinuous channels that cradle 1,000 feet of formable LED tubes linked with clips. [Extracted from the article]