the hiving studio
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IT IS A WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD- SPECIFICALLY, THE BUILT WORLD.
NO DEVELOPMENT EXISTS IN ISOLATION. EVERY BUILDING TOUCHES A STREET. EVERY STREET SHAPES A NEIGHBOURHOOD. EVERY NEIGHBOURHOOD DEFINES A CITY. EVERY DECISION MADE AT A DESK, RIPPLES OUTWARDS INTO THE LIVES OF THE USERS.
"CARE & COMMERCIAL RIGOUR ARE NOT OPPOSING FORCES."
IF THAT'S HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD- YOU ALREADY UNDERSTAND US.
MATHEW Rosenblatt
CO-FOUNDER, CREATIVE AGENT
Mathew is the visionary behind the Distillery Historic District — the adaptive reuse of the largest collection of Victorian industrial buildings in North America into one of Toronto's most beloved and internationally recognised destinations. A project now studied at Harvard Business School. Featured in Vogue, CNN, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Architectural Digest.
He has spent decades at the intersection of real estate, culture, placemaking, and community — building not just developments, but platforms. Environments that set a positive tone for the people inside them and the cities around them.
Mathew is driven, above everything else, by the belief that real estate done with genuine intention creates value that compound long after the project opens — for investors, for communities, and for cities.
ORKO Roy
CO-FOUNDER, DESIGNER
Orko — which literally means Sun — has spent his career building spaces that make people feel electric and alive. Trained at one of the world's leading architecture schools, he brings a designer's precision and a humanist's instinct to every mandate he takes on.
His client roster spans some of the most significant real estate institutions in Canada — Hines, JLL, KingSett, BGO, Dream Unlimited — but what defines his work is not who he has worked for. It is how he works. With uncommon care. With genuine curiosity. And with the conviction that the best real estate outcomes happen when the person across the table feels genuinely heard.
Orko is the first person to tell you something is not working — and the last person to leave the room until it is.
Our hivers
THE HIVING IS FOUNDER-LED. BUT A HIVE IS NEVER JUST TWO PEOPLE.
MICHAEL Smith
DESIGNER DIRECTOR
Architect and community engagement specialist. Michael believes cities are not built by concrete alone — but by the hands, hearts, and hopes of the people who live in them. He brings rigorous design thinking and deep community intelligence to the projects where the relationship between a development and its neighbourhood needs the most careful attention. Recently named by Forbes as one of 24 creative personalities in Central America. His measure of success: when a community takes ownership of a space and makes it entirely their own.
ABRAM Santa Cruz
ART DIRECTOR
Artist, designer, and founder of Liquid PXL — a Los Angeles-based studio that has spent over a decade transforming public spaces through large-scale light installations. Abram works at the intersection of art, science, and human experience. His projects do not decorate spaces. They make people see them — and feel them — differently. When The Hiving needs a project to have a soul that goes beyond the built form, Abram is the first call we make.