717 Davie
717 Davie
Located along the Downtown West Loop at the intersection of Davie and Granville, this new hotel aims to serve as an architectural anchor, revitalizing the intersection by energizing Granville and Davie Street, encouraging pedestrian activity, and reinforcing transit connections. The project addresses Downtown Vancouver’s shortage of hotel accommodations, aiming to bridge the substantial gap between supply and demand. Moreover, it aims to boost tourism, culture, and entertainment sectors while enriching visitor experiences and revitalizing Granville Street.
The building features distinct design elements and round corners for the podium and tower. The podium design honors the historical context of the site, drawing inspiration from the form and scale of Granville Street. The podium mirrors the distinctive sawtooth profile of Granville Street and the façade articulation reflects the width of a typical downtown block, maintaining the continuity of the pedestrian-scale street wall. The proposed building features a thoughtfully articulated facade, with its massing divided into three distinctive volumes. As the tower rises, elements of the facade are methodically removed. This gradual material denaturing creates a striking visual contrast that highlights the building’s verticality. The facade articulation is dictated by the hotel unit module, creating a dynamic composition that maximizes functionality and aesthetics.
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1151 W Georgia Street
1151 W Georgia Street
1151 West Georgia is located on Vancouver’s Georgia Street in the Central Business District. The elegant, slim, triangular, 167-meter tower rotates 45 degrees between its base and its roof.
Situated on Vancouver’s primary ceremonial street, the proposed tower is conceived as a singular pure form rising from the ground plane to the parapet in a graceful spiral. The massing results from the rotation of a constant truncated triangular floor plate to create a powerful iconic form for this tall building. A three-storey podium element engages the tower on the east side responding to the similarly scaled Terasen Building podium. The large public open space fronting Georgia Street offers a sunny place for congregating and gives access to the mid-block connectors to the north.
The project is in collaboration with dys architecture and in association with Arthur Erickson.
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1166 Alberni
1166 Alberni
The Carmana development contains a mix of uses; rental and market residential condominiums, office and retail, all tightly incorporated into a dense urban site. As such, the ground level expansion of the office tower to include additional retail along Alberni Street had to respond to a number of constraints in terms of loading, vertical circulation, access and building services in order to achieve a design that expressed and supported all uses while maintaining an overall cohesiveness.
Similar materials and vocabulary were used to rejuvenate the retail expression along Alberni Street. The retail pavilion at the Bute / Alberni corner provides punctuation to the end of the Carmana development and completes the retail experience along Alberni and up Bute towards Robson Street.
Location: Vancouver
Size: 47,000 sf
Client: Alberni Investments Inc. c/o Peterson Investment Group Inc.
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Terminal City Club
Terminal City Club
The Terminal City Club Tower is a 30-storey mixed-use development in the heart of the business district. The Club’s portion is housed on four levels, including a fitness centre with pool, formal dining rooms, banquet rooms, cocktail lounge, pub and billiards room. Tyndall limestone cladding evokes the Club’s 100-year history.
The slender tower clad in blue-green glass and metal accommodates strata offices, 60 hotel suites and 73 luxury strata residences, as well as exclusive retail at street level. This project was a joint venture between Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership and James KM Cheng Architects Inc.
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Vancouver Club
Vancouver Club
In 1992, the Vancouver Club decided to renovate the existing east and west elevations of their Class “A” heritage building in concert with the establishment of an adjacent city park over a parking garage. The renovation also included an extension to the north consisting of an outdoor terrace with additional Club facilities and 36 parking stalls below.
Castings and mouldings and relief from the existing façade were used to construct fibreglass replicas, in conjunction with brick and E.I.F.S. to finish what was originally a common wall to the east and unfinished facades to the north and west. This project was awarded the 1995 City of Vancouver Heritage Award of Honour.
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Pan Pacific Hotel
Pan Pacific Hotel
A key component of Canada Place, the Pan Pacific Hotel has 505 elegantly appointed guest rooms, including 39 suites, offering unequalled views of mountains, harbour and cityscape. Additionally, the hotel offers three restaurants, a fitness and racquets club, heated outdoor pool, whirlpool and paddle tennis courts. For meetings and conventions, the nine function rooms can accommodate up to 700 conferees and the ballroom seats more than 500 for banquets.
The exterior of the Pan Pacific Hotel is a combination of silver reflective glass and white porcelain enamel cladding which handsomely mirrors Vancouver’s dramatic skyline and the North Shore Mountains. These materials have been used throughout the Canada Place complex and reinforce its maritime location.
Location: Vancouver
Size: 400,000 sf
Client: Tokyu Canada Corporation
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Chateau Whistler
Chateau Whistler
Located at the base of Blackcomb Mountain, Whistler British Columbia, Chateau Whistler Resort Hotel is the pivotal property for the development at the base of Blackcomb. The largest resort hotel built in Canada since the turn of the century, with 350 rooms and 12 storeys, Chateau Whistler achieves a monumental stature visible from both the ski slopes and within the valley.
Public area amenities are expansive and luxurious, including a 175-seat, two-level restaurant, a lobby lounge, and Tapas Bar. The lobby entrance achieves a grandness of scale with a three-storey-high vaulted space. A full facility convention centre provides a 600-seat ballroom, a junior ballroom and breakout meeting rooms. The health club is highlighted by an indoor/outdoor swimming pool, two whirlpools, saunas, aerobics room and health bar. In joint-venture with D/A Architects & Planners & Zeidler Roberts.
Location: Whistler
Size: 260,000 sf
Client: Canadian Pacific Hotels & Resorts
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Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
The Waterfront Centre Hotel occupies a pivotal location overlooking Vancouver’s inner harbour, close to the financial district and the Canada Place Trade and Convention Centre.
This 22-storey, 493-room hotel includes a 120-seat, two-level restaurant, lobby lounge and bar, a ballroom and meeting rooms. There is also a health club with fitness facilities and an outdoor swimming pool. The hotel and adjacent office building are linked at grade by an extensively landscaped plaza and a lower retail concourse.
Location: Vancouver
Size: 410,000 sf
Client: Marathon Realty Co. Ltd.
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