The assumption for this thesis is that the city of Halifax, Canada, has decided to stop the exploitation of prostitutes through the decriminalisation of prostitution co-operatives. In doing so, this thesis proposes the addition of a consumer driven institution to house a brothel, hotel, restaurant, lounge and fitness centre in the business district of Halifax. The addition of this contrasting set of relationships within both the city and a single building provides a hidden opportunity, or surprise. It becomes a place for people to discover during their exploraton of life.The thesis looks at the role of Eros in the history of western architecture, and translates it into the present to seduce the buildings visitor. The design of a place for the sale of pleasures (in the realms of gastronomy, fitness, and sex) focuses on how architecture can engage people, playing with programmatic juxtapositions to make common daily rituals turn into something erotic. The architecture is to seduce the inhabitants through a sequence of spatial qualities orchestrated along a path. While brothel clients progress through the brothel, the building teases and entices them. The goal of the design is to orchestrate a path that controls ones gaze, screens ones view, celebrates each threshold and interacts with the users body. It is to be a new institution that celebrates pleasure, seduction and sexuality.How can a study of Eros role in architecture influence the design of a building for prostitution?