A large wooden table in the communal dining room is the popular gathering spot. There, women learn to make modern takes on traditional Native American ribbon skirts or create vision boards as part of the cultural, wellness, and life skills programming offered by anduhyaun, the oldest Indigenous women’s shelter in Canada. The table was brought over from the shelter’s former location, a cramped, city-owned historic home, to the new 11,862-square-foot building designed by lga_ap. “That’s the original house meeting table from the beginning of Anduhyaun,” says Danielle Belyea, shelter director of the nonprofit, which was founded by four Indigenous grandmothers in 1973. “That table has been present with us since the beginning of all the programs, every house meeting, all the tears.” Honoring the cultural identities of Anduhyaun’s women and children clients (most but not all of whom are Indigenous) informed the design for the three-story emergency shelter, which opened in 2024. Architect Broc...