The Fircom Amphitheatre (nicknamed ‘the sanctuary’) is a design-build project born out of Camp Fircom’s desire to bring life back to an overgrown forest clearing that was the historical site of the camp’s chapel – a place for celebration and reflection. Taking advantage of the existing slope, the Amphitheatre is | Read More
Hapa designed and coordinated the fabrication of a commemorative speakers’ corner feature located in the heart of Vancouver’s West End. The plaza, commissioned separately by the City of Vancouver, is a street conversion that connects the commercial activity of Davie Street to the residential stretch of Bute Street. The | Read More
Tying together six townhouses on the site of an old autobody shop in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood, Koo’s Courtyard provides a small community with its social heart. The design challenge was to make a virtue of the narrow space, which has a width of 2.8m for most of its length. With | Read More
Artistic landscape architecture brings a sense of belonging | John King | SFGate.com When five of the nation’s leading landscape architects, gathered before their peers last weekend in Berkeley, the projects they discussed were located in Massachusetts and Minnesota, China and Spain. In the pink: Downtown ribbon display adds to | Read More
In December of 2012, 45 teams from 17 countries set forth to re-imagine our landscape, and today(Nov. 4) the University of Manitoba announces that a team of Canadian firms has won its Visionary (re)Generation Open International Design Competition. What has been selected are not the final plans for the site’s development. Rather, this winning concept | Read More
SALA Works at Or Gallery presents a diverse range of projects by faculty at University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA). As a dynamic centre of leading design research and pedagogy, SALA and its faculty stretch the theoretical, technical and practice-based boundaries of architecture and landscape architecture. February 25 — March 15, | Read More
On April 9 the one day conference SUSTAIN: Vancouver was held at Vancouver Art Gallery ‘SUSTAIN: Vancouver explores this corner of the world as a model for a larger dialogue about how to shape our experience of the urban and consider meaningful ways of living together for the years to | Read More
“TownShift: Suburb Into City” sponsored by the City of Surrey was a sustainable design competition to provide vision for Surrey’s five growing town centres – Cloverdale, Fleetwood, Guildford, Newton and Semiahmoo. The competition attracted 138 submissions from 20 countries, and 27 finalists were selected by the five-member TownShift jury. Renate | Read More
During the Winter Olympics in Vancouver a newly updated Granville Street by PWL Partnership Landscape Architects has become a lively impromptu event space for buskers, street hockey, olympic pin sellers and more. The street has been closed to traffic for 30 years with only buses allowed back in the mid-1970’s. | Read More
The City of Ottawa released the names of the 5 firms that have been short listed from the 21 submissions received to compete for the design of Lansdowne Park’s open space. The short listed firms are Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates – Cambridge, Massachusetts Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg – Vancouver, British Columbia | Read More
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