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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Read More
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