Abbey Myra
Licensed Architect & Founder

Abbey is a Nova Scotia-born architect with over a decade of experience designing across the province. Before earning her Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University, she studied nursing and worked in long-term care, a background that continues to shape her people-centered approach to design.

Her work spans custom homes, multi-unit residential buildings, interior renovations, adaptive reuse, and commercial spaces. After several years leading projects as an Associate at Fathom Studio, she founded Cove Studio to focus on smaller, more personal work.

Abbey works closely with clients to create spaces that feel calm, functional, and entirely their own. There’s no set style, each project responds to its site, its context, and the people it’s designed for.

Studio Leadership.

Abbey Myra
Licensed Architect & Founder

Portrait of a woman with long red hair, wearing a black sweater with a white striped collar, smiling, against a black background.
Portrait of a woman with long red hair, wearing a black sweater with a white striped collar, smiling, against a black background.

Abbey is a Nova Scotia-born architect with over a decade of experience designing across the province. Before earning her Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University, she studied nursing and worked in long-term care, a background that continues to shape her people-centered approach to design.

Her work spans custom homes, multi-unit residential buildings, interior renovations, adaptive reuse, and commercial spaces. After several years leading projects as an Associate at Fathom Studio, she founded Cove Studio to focus on smaller, more personal work.

Abbey works closely with clients to create spaces that feel calm, functional, and entirely their own. There’s no set style, each project responds to its site, its context, and the people it’s designed for.

Experience.

The projects below represent a selection of Abbey’s work, completed while at Fathom Studio in collaboration with Chris Crawford, who served as Architect of Record. Single-family residential projects aren’t shown out of respect for client privacy.

  • Photographer: Cooked Photography

    Keshen Library Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Cooked Photography

  • Children playing and sitting in a brightly lit, modern indoor playroom with large windows, colorful furniture, and outdoor greenery visible.

    Keshen Goodman Library Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Cooked Photography

  • A modern library interior with chairs, tables, bookshelves, and study areas, viewed through a private booth with seating.

    Keshen Goodman Library Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Cooked Photography

  • Reception area of the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute with a wooden front desk, black wall with carved symbols, three gold spherical hanging lights, concrete pillars, and seating areas in the background.

    DBDLI Office Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Julien Parkinson

  • Open office space with modern ceiling design featuring wooden slats and white geometric elements, cubicles with frosted glass partitions, desks, chairs, and a reception area with phone and office supplies.

    DBDLI Office Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Julien Parkinson

  • Modern office lounge with two gray chairs, a small round black table, a geometric patterned wall with red, gray, and white triangles, large windows, and an open ceiling with white pipes and a hanging light fixture.

    Municipal Group Office Renovation/Addition

    Role: Project Lead

  • Interior of a modern, spacious cafeteria or dining area with black round tables, black chairs, large windows, greenery, wood-paneled walls, and a ceiling with white beams and lighting fixtures.

    Municipal Group Office Renovation/Addition

    Role: Project Manager

  • Municipal Group Office Renovation/Addition

    Role: Project Lead

  • A modern office with a woman sitting at a table working on a computer, two people in the background walking, large windows on the right, and a kitchenette area on the left.

    Dalhousie CHEB Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Harrison

  • A hospital room with a patient lying in bed while medical professionals attend to her and monitor her vital signs on screens.

    Dalhousie CHEB Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Harrison

  • Modern office conference room with a ceiling-mounted flat screen TV, rows of chairs, glass partitioned enclosed workspaces, and a mix of gray, orange, and yellow furniture.

    Dalhousie CHEB Renovation

    Role: Project Lead
    Photographer: Harrison

  • Modern lobby with black wall decorated with a white city map, seating area with two black chairs, a gray rug, large glass front entrance, and contemporary linear and geometric ceiling lights.

    The George Multi-Residential

    Role: Lobby Interior Design

  • The Shuffle Multi-Residential

    The Shuffle Multi-Residential

    Role: Project Lead for Concept Design and Feasibility
    Render: Fathom Studio

  • Wyse Road Multi- Residential

    Wyse Road Multi- Residential

    Role: Project Lead for Concept and Feasibility
    Rendering: Fathom Studio