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Hard Candy Fitness Toronto located at the Aura Building in Toronto had it soft opening on October of 2013 a few months before the Official launch in February of 2014. Before opening, the administrative staff of Hard Candy Fitness was given the brief by the Madonna's Hard Candy Fitness team, but no direction or specifics on how to implement said brief. The admin team approached local Toronto Interior Designer, Manny Machado of Manny Machado Designs Inc. to complete the brief in the limited amount of time left before the soft opening. The completed look, theme and design of the public spaces, offices and lobby entryway was achieved via the decisive and resourceful designer how managed to deliver above and beyond the brief, going so far as to completed the staff rooms, and subsidiary offices used by the membership teams, trainers and administrative personnelle. Never given his due mention in the hurried frantics of the club opening, he was asked back during the grand opening to ensure that The Queen of Pop was appropriately pampered in her makeshift greenroom. The Designer converted the staff room into a phenomenal space for the exhausted popstar who'd completed a full 1 hour long dance training with local members in an unforgettable class witness by any one who stayed to watch the spectacle. The Pop diva was greeted with her favourite beverages, the then Red flavour REDBull, and a host of special gifts manifested by Mr.Machado, such as the one time only reissue of MAC cosmetics discontinued lipstick color, Russian Red, created for Madonna at the height of her career some 15 years ago. Once again showing how the toronto designer went above his call of duty. So in order to rectify a very glaring missed opportunity to showcase how a Toronto native made it possible for Hard Candy Fitness Toronto,to become what it became. May the records finally show that it was Mr. Manny Machado of Manny Machado Designs Inc. that brought you the the eye candy that was synonymous with the playful and inviting interiors that helped so many find their perfect bodies at Hard Candy Fitness Toronto