the portal project

A light wooden door with glass panels sits beside a large shop window displaying store signage and reflections of the sky.

Storefront Entrance of The Cunning Folk

A tall orange treble clef sculpture and musical staff rise above a commercial building featuring a piano key roofline and storefront entrances.

Musical Theme Storefront

A grey stucco church building features white double front doors, arched windows, and a decorative metal railing framed from a low angle under a partly cloudy sky.

Church Entrance Under Cloudy Sky

A vintage rooftop sign for the Cecil Hotel sits above a red brick facade with a metal fire escape staircase and windows against a clear blue sky.

Cecil Hotel Rooftop Sign

A retail store entrance featuring a large green sign with yellow letters reflected upside down in a puddle on the pavement.

Dollarama Storefront and Reflection

A glazed wooden front door beneath a glowing red neon sign reflected in the wet pavement below.

Highlevel Diner Entrance at Night

A glass storefront door with an interior metal security gate stands illuminated beside printed window signs and a yellow curb.

Storefront Glass Door and Signage

Double glass doors create an entrance set into tan brick beneath a metal overhang and rooftop flagpoles.

Brick Building Entrance with Glass Double Doors

A slate-blue metal door set in a ribbed concrete block wall sits beside growing plants in white buckets.

Metal Door in Concrete Block Wall

A glass entrance door stands open at a family arcade storefront beneath a large illuminated sign reading Lil' Jay's Family Arcade and Billiards Centre.

Storefront Entrance to Lil' Jay's Arcade

Textured stucco walls frame the entrance of a commercial building displaying hotel signage.

Bashaw Hotel Exterior

A damaged interior room filled with floor debris leading to a brightly lit open door and window at the far end.

Interior of a Damaged Building

A red front door serves as the focal point of a two-story house with a gravel path stretching across the front yard.

Red Door on a Two-Story House

A dark arched front door sits beneath a small gabled portico on a light blue Tudor-style house with green foliage in front.

Arched Entrance to a Tudor Style House

A wooden front door with a closed sign stands beneath an orange awning at a small coffee shop entrance.

Coffee Stop Storefront

A door with a glass panel stands beneath an illuminated overhang on a brick building surrounded by deep snow at night.

Illuminated Entrance in the Snow

An open wooden door stands ajar along a hallway, revealing a storage closet filled with stacked linens, supplies, and a plastic container.

Open Door to a Storage Closet

A light-colored house with a front porch, white railing, and rock garden is partially framed by a large tree trunk.

Front Entrance of a Home behind a Tree

A light-colored gabled house features a narrow sidewalk leading to front porch steps and a storm door.

Front Entrance of a Sided House

An open wooden doorway in a log wall stands beside a painted cutout of a man, looking out toward an outdoor platform and forest.

Open doorway in a log wall with a painted figure

Concrete steps bordered by grass lead to a wooden double front door set under a porch entryway.

Wooden Double Entrance Doors with Steps

A white entrance door with decorative glass inserts sits partially hidden behind a dense evergreen shrub.

Door Obscured by Evergreen Shrub

Weathered wooden door with a screen window built into a building wall featuring peeling white and blue paint.

Weathered Entrance with Peeling Paint

A small white A-frame structure with a front door and wooden porch steps stands beneath bare tree branches in a monochrome landscape.

A-Frame Building Entrance

A wooden outhouse with a light blue door stands beside green bushes overlooking farmland under a cloudy sky.

Outhouse in a Rural Landscape

A glass commercial entrance door sits beneath a lighted wooden overhang, accompanied by multi-colored brick walls and a curved brick seating area.

Commercial Storefront Entrance at Night

A glass storefront door numbered 65 is set between display windows covered in pop culture posters and signs under a wooden ceiling.

Recessed Storefront Entrance

A light-colored single-story house with a central front porch is seen behind a weathered white wooden picket fence.

Front Door of a House Behind a Picket Fence

A narrow walkway passes between a green painted building with glass doors and a yellow block wall under an overcast sky.

Narrow Walkway Between Painted Buildings

Two grey metal service doors stand set into a light textured exterior wall with a concrete pad in front.

Two Grey Metal Doors

A red brick commercial storefront features a recessed glass entrance door beneath a hanging open sign and beside a display window.

Storefront Entrance of New To You

Modern glass entrance doors open into a long indoor corridor flanked by a large directional sign.

Indoor Corridor and Entrance Sign

Double glass doors stand framed in silver metal between bold blue and yellow wall cladding.

Modern Double Glass Entrance Doors

A liquor store storefront features a central glazed door behind a metal security gate, flanked by windows decorated with heart cutouts.

Storefront of Drumheller Liquor

Weathered metal double doors are set into a painted block wall beneath a business sign reading Best Friends Pet Supplies.

Metal Double Doors Under Pet Supplies Sign

A single-story beige house with a grey roof features white front steps leading to a glass storm door behind a green lawn.

Beige House Frontage

A white front door adorned with lit holiday wreaths stands at the top of concrete porch steps under a covered entryway at night.

Decorated Front Door at Night

Two glass doors sit at the street level of a brown brick building beneath three blue upper windows.

Patterned Brick Building Storefront with Two Glass Doors

A central doorway sits at the top of wooden steps flanked by large potted flowers and columns supporting a pediment.

Entrance to The Vault Cultural Collective

A NAPA Auto Parts building featuring blue metal panels, grey brick, and yellow accents sits beneath a cloudy sky.

NAPA Auto Parts Building

Glass double doors and surrounding window panels face out onto a paved outdoor walkway next to a modern building facade.

Glass Doors of a Modern Building

Large reddish-brown double wooden doors with black strap hinges stand framed by an exposed brick wall under a painted Alberta Clay Products sign.

Alberta Clay Products Doorway

A door marked with the number 46 is nailed shut with wooden planks along a building with paneled siding.

Boarded Door Number 46

A residential front entryway and steps bathed in vivid blue lighting contrast with warm yellow glow inside the windows at night.

Blue Lighted House Entrance at Night

A raised wooden porch with steps leads to an open white door on the side of a white metal building under a blue sky.

White Metal Building Entrance with Wooden Deck

A black door stands flush in a bright blue painted cinder block wall with geometric shadows cast across it.

Black Door on Blue Cinderblock Wall

A light-colored concrete sidewalk cuts across a green lawn to the front entrance of a house with a yellow business banner below its front windows.

Front Entrance of a House with a Boutique Banner

Double glass doors set under a small awning are surrounded by white porcelain toilets on a patio.

Double Doors with Discarded Toilets

Dark brown double service doors set into a light peach block wall above asphalt marked with a yellow line.

Brown Receiving Doors on a Peach Wall

A modern building entrance features glass double doors beneath a portico flanked by silver cylindrical towers under a blue sky.

Modern Metallic Building Entrance