622 Marine Drive
622 Marine Drive
This unique development in South Vancouver features two towers atop a retail podium. A key aspect of the project is a public plaza and a pedestrian path that provide great permeability through the unusual triangular site, encouraging pedestrian movement and enhancing urban connectivity.
The proposed massing provides much-needed density while maintaining a pedestrian-scaled base. The design features a distinctive crown and a dramatic flatiron base, drawing attention to both the top and bottom of the structure. This project establishes an active street wall, using the length of the frontage to define the street. The podium is divided into two parts, framing a generous mid-block connection from SW Marine Drive to W 70th Avenue.
Massing is concentrated toward SW Marine Drive, away from the lower-density homes along W 70th Avenue, maximizing sunny open space. The residential area is distributed between two slender towers, stepping down westward from the transit hub at Cambie Street. Positioned mid-block and perpendicular to the traffic flow, the towers create a logical cadence along SW Marine Drive, with their south sides shifting apart to emphasize verticality.
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2285 Cambie Street
2285 Cambie Street
2285 Cambie Street is a mixed-use development designed to contribute to the vitality of the Cambie Corridor by integrating much-needed rental residential, office, and retail uses within a transit-oriented urban setting. It aligns with the city’s goals of increasing density, promoting housing diversity, enhancing street-level engagement, and strengthening the local economy.
The design employs a refined tower-and-podium typology, featuring a six-storey office base topped by a market residential tower. This vertical integration of retail, office, and residential functions directly responds to community needs. Ground-level setbacks along West 7th Avenue and Cambie Street help activate the streetscape, enriching Cambie Street’s welcoming public realm. The slender residential tower, comprising 212 rental suites, is carefully sculpted to preserve neighboring views while framing iconic vistas of downtown and the North Shore mountains. 2285 Cambie’s cohesive architectural expression—defined by high-performance materials and warm, natural finishes—establishes it as a distinctive and memorable urban landmark at the gateway to Uptown.
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2111 Main Street
2111 Main Street
Located in one of Vancouver’s most historic and culturally significant neighborhoods, Mount Pleasant, and occupying an entire city block, this project offers a unique opportunity to enrich and enhance the existing character and urban fabric through thoughtful design combined with art and cultural integration, while providing much needed secured rental housing.
The development is characterized by two towers situated on separate podiums, bisected by a breezeway connecting to Main Alley. The podiums are thoughtfully designed as seven distinct and varied brick masses that respond to the eclectic urban form of Main Street and the industrial heritage of Mount Pleasant. The breezeway is envisioned as a protected environment, programmed with small-scale retail and restaurant spaces. By carving the public realm into the site, the project fosters a stronger connection between pedestrians and the building, while also creating new opportunities for human-centric interactions. The building also includes dedicated art and cultural space and offers blank ‘canvas’ spaces in the laneway, creating opportunities for future mural installations.
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Kits Block, 4th & MacDonald
Kits Block, 4th & MacDonald
Located in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, the project is a four-storey mixed-use development on a long, narrow site at a prominent arterial intersection. It features ground-floor retail anchored by a neighbourhood-serving grocery store—an important amenity that supports daily needs and reinforces the area as a local retail hub—along with strata residential units above and three levels of underground parking. The design strengthens the intersection as a neighbourhood node while enhancing the public realm through setbacks and streetscape improvements.
The building employs articulated massing to break down its length, highlighting the retail entry with a central “break” and varied roofline. A dynamic façade with varied materials and balcony configurations enhances pedestrian engagement along West 4th Avenue. Upper levels step back—particularly to the north—to reduce impacts on adjacent homes while creating terraces and privacy. Key elements such as cantilevered slabs, inset balconies, perforated panels, and integrated landscaping contribute to a strong yet context-sensitive architectural expression.
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2315 W 4th Ave
2315 W 4th Ave
This holistic development in the Kitsilano neighborhood seamlessly integrates residential, retail, and public spaces while respecting the local context, history, and environmental sustainability. Thoughtful massing, active street engagement, and diverse amenities contribute to a high-quality urban experience, fostering a lively, inclusive, and connected community.
The design features a finer-grain building expression along W 4th Ave, with 30-foot-wide retail frontages, a diverse material palette, and varying parapet heights, reinforcing a strong sense of place that complements the existing streetscape. Above the retail podium, four stories of residential units extend along W 4th Ave, incorporating setbacks to create a layered and dynamic facade. Along W 3rd Ave, a nine-storey residential massing transitions into a six-storey structure along Vine Street, ensuring visual variety, light penetration, and a pedestrian-friendly scale. The grocery store entrance at W 4th Ave and Vine St is designed as a welcoming covered plaza, serving as an outdoor gathering space that enhances the public realm. A key component of the development is the preservation of mature Norway maple trees along W 3rd Ave, emphasizing the project’s commitment to environmental sustainability and neighborhood integration.
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Arbutus and Broadway
Arbutus and Broadway
Situated at the southeast corner of the West Broadway and Arbutus intersection, the project site spans a narrow city block adjacent to the future SkyTrain Arbutus Station, presenting an opportunity for an elegant tower expression at West Broadway. The development comprises a 30-storey tower on the northern half, closest to the transit hub, and a connected six-storey podium on the southern half along West 10th Avenue.
This mixed-use development integrates residential, retail, and the future home of the Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel. The project reserves space for a potential secondary entrance into Arbutus Station as part of the Broadway line SkyTrain extension. A public plaza will be established at the north end of the block, enhancing pedestrian connections across West Broadway to access the main station entrance. The subway construction project will reinstate the Arbutus Greenway’s traffic signal-controlled mid-block pedestrian and cycling crossing across West Broadway.
Varying façade detailing and materiality define the project, with the tower form emphasized by soft curving balconies and a continuous horizontal expression that unifies the podium and tower. A series of natural-colored panels create subtle patterning and visual interest, providing relief to the horizontal banding and contributing to a warm, high-quality material palette that maintains cohesion with the podium. Brick cladding on the lower volume of the podium adjacent to West 10th Avenue draws inspiration from the neighborhood context.
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324 West 10th Avenue
324 West 10th Avenue
This project stands out as a distinctive addition to the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, featuring a unique and efficient floor plate along with a reduced overall height that respects the surrounding context. Rising 19 storeys, the building exceeds the City’s Green Buildings Policy for Rezonings through the integration of advanced sustainable design and construction practices. It also serves as a model for thoughtful, transit-oriented development.
The sculpted massing and active laneway frontage illustrate how thoughtful architectural design can foster both urban vibrancy and social connection within a growing neighborhood. The tower is carefully shaped to minimize visual bulk, with a slender vertical expression emphasized at the eastern corners—resulting in an articulated form composed of multiple distinct building elements. Centrally positioned on the site, the tower allows for generous setbacks to adjacent properties. The podium height transitions respond sensitively to the surrounding low- and mid-rise context. At street level, the clearly defined podium massing articulates a mix of uses—most notably, neighbourhood-serving retail—and aligns seamlessly with the existing streetscape.
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13511 102 Ave Surrey
13511 102 Ave Surrey
Inspired by institutional-modernist design principles, this tower is envisioned as an integral part of the city center’s contextual architecture. The project’s dark color palette creates a distinct identity by tastefully contrasting with adjacent buildings, while a vibrant interior public realm enhances the overall experience for residents and visitors alike. The site presents unique challenges, bordered by future development on the north and east sides and the SkyTrain guideway on the west. To address these constraints, the massing of the building responds with simple yet refined design moves.
A defining feature of the building is how it articulates its various uses through meticulous massing details. From the public realm to the office, amenities, residential areas, and roof capping, the building eloquently expresses the function of each space through carefully considered detailing and a variation of glazing. The tower’s identity is further accentuated through its skillful use of vertical detailing at the office block and the subtle yet impactful west and east indenting of balconies. The balconies facing south and north not only serve as shading devices but also add texture to the facade along 102 Avenue. The materiality chosen draws inspiration from institutional and modernist expressions, with a particular emphasis on creating a welcoming and engaging ground-level experience.
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1456 W 8th Ave
1456 W 8th Ave
The proposed project envisions a new 25-storey rental residential tower with amenities on the rooftop above level 2 and atop the tower. Ground-floor retail will face West 8th Avenue. A new mid-block connection on the west side of the site will facilitate pedestrian traffic through the area. Adjacent to the future South Granville subway station, currently under construction at the corner of Broadway and Granville, the project offers a prime opportunity to add rental housing and retail space close to new and existing rapid transit networks.
The main residential lobby is situated mid-block on West 8th Avenue, flanked by retail spaces on either side to create a continuous, active ground plane. This layout also accommodates the significant grade change across the site, reflected in the split ground floor plan. The tower is set back on all four sides to highlight the podium expression and preserve opportunities for future development on the block. Above Level 9, the tower steps back further, creating a slender, elegant form that maximizes access to light and views. This articulated form and smaller floorplate distinguish the proposal from a uniformly extruded tower that could be envisioned under the Broadway Plan.
The tower’s design is characterized by a light and dark mass, interwoven with ‘tartan-like’ detailing achieved through varying material textures and colors, including back-painted glass, oxidized copper panels, and raised metal panels. The podium features a distinct commercial expression, with design details that echo the residential tower above, creating a unified material language with an elevated, industrial sensibility. At the ground plane, the pedestrian experience is enhanced through weather protection and high-quality architectural materials and detailing.
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107A Avenue Surrey
107A Avenue Surrey
This transit-oriented development, featuring elegant, simple forms with clean contemporary lines, aims to enhance the urban fabric and skyline of Surrey. The proposal defines the future urban fabric and public realm of the block with active retail facing 107A Street, complemented by corner plazas and building entries.
The towers, with their height and simple massing, have elegant proportions and engage in a dialogue within a strong frame expression and elegant sculptural top. The patterning of the balcony railings provides individuality, allowing each elevation to respond to its solar and view orientation and reinforce its verticality. A cap element punctuates the composition of each tower and screens the rooftop. The podium massing buffers the site from SkyTrain noise and provides natural surveillance to the south. The podium features retail on 107A Avenue, enhancing pedestrian activation adjacent to the public park space. Corner plazas are associated with each residential lobby at the external corners of the site, facing University/107A and City Parkway/107A, respectively. Retail activation is established along the 107A frontage, with townhomes providing streetscape activation to all other pedestrian frontages.
