“Great design is not about adding more. It is about revealing what matters most, transforming complexity into clarity, and ensuring every decision serves the people who use a space and the larger vision.”

Éléonore is an accomplished architect and healthcare design leader with extensive experience delivering complex healthcare, long-term care, education, and public-sector projects across British Columbia and Canada. As Principal, Long-Term Care and Senior Living Lead at Kasian, she leads multidisciplinary teams, strategic pursuits, and the delivery of significant projects across the practice.

Éléonore is passionate about human-centred design and creating environments that support dignity, wellbeing, and quality of life. She embraces the challenges of medium- to large-scale projects involving complex stakeholder and user needs, uncovering opportunities to showcase best practices and innovation. Her commitment to design excellence has taken her to facilities around the world, where she has explored leading approaches to long-term care and senior living design. She has shared these insights at major local and international conferences, presenting on principles that shape supportive and responsive long-term care environments.

Bilingual in French and English, Eleonore is an active mentor, guest critic, speaker, and contributor to the architectural and healthcare design communities.

My Sectors: Education; Healthcare.

My Services: Architecture.

We asked, Éléonore Leclerc answered:

What drew you to Kasian?

“I wanted to be part of a practice that sees design as more than aesthetics. Kasian’s commitment to improving lives through thoughtful, sustainable, and community-focused design resonated deeply with me. I was drawn to a culture where curiosity and collaboration are grounded in purpose, and where design is used to create meaningful, lasting impact for those who experience the spaces we shape.”

What makes a successful project?

“I define and measure success as achieving a balance between design excellence, stakeholder goals, and the human experience. The most successful projects foster collaboration, respond thoughtfully to context, and create meaningful, measurable value for both clients and communities.”