10662 King George
10662 King George
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 adding retail and significant public amities to the area.
The project employs a mid-century modern design aesthetic characterized by simple geometric lines, reduced ornamentation, and an emphasis on horizontal and vertical planes. The buildings feature flat or understated roofs and expressive canopies, fostering transparency between the inside and outside. Natural materials and concrete are used as finishing elements, alongside a mid-century modern bright color palette. The design includes individualized storefronts, opportunities for public art, and safe, engaging public spaces. The podium massing varies to reflect changes in grade, while the towers engage in a dialogue within a strong frame expression, with elevations reacting to solar and view orientations to reinforce verticality. The balconies are designed to create a random and dynamic pattern, adding visual interest and uniqueness to the facade.
Location: Surrey
Size: 780,000 sf
Client: King Rise Development
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8 E Broadway
8 E Broadway
Located at the corner of Broadway and Ontario Streets, the proposed 20-storey tower features market rental housing, ground-floor retail, and a childcare facility with indoor and outdoor areas. The design echoes the urban materiality of Mount Pleasant, with the building’s massing reflecting the neighborhood’s scale and respecting the community’s vision and urban design guidelines. It emphasizes activation at grade, creating engaging spaces that invite community interaction and enhance the public realm.
The building massing is divided into three distinct volumes, each using different materials to reflect the neighborhood’s scale and character. Volume two, the main public realm massing, uses buff brick to enhance Mount Pleasant’s legacy character, inspired by landmarks like Heritage Hall. Volume one employs vertical glazing to emphasize verticality and maximize views, while volume three uses grey composite metal to echo the area’s light industrial character.
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Harbourside LOT D
Harbourside LOT D
The Harbourside lands are located in the southwest corner of the City of North Vancouver along Burrard Inlet, between Mackay and Mosquito Creeks, and are comprised of four development parcels. The building will be seven to nine storeys in height creating a comfortable human scale community.
Pedestrian permeability through the neighborhood and views of the water and mountains guided the development of the masterplan ensuring that the neighborhood would be benefit the entire City. The first phase of the development is Lot D, the eastern most parcel adjacent to Mosquito Creek. Lot D is comprised of four buildings. The buildings along Harbourside Drive, facing the City, take on the industrial/loft nature of the existing context.
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550 Cambie Street
550 Cambie Street
The project site is located mid-block on Cambie Street between Dunsmuir and Pender Streets in the Crosstown neighborhood of Vancouver and within the Central Business District (CBD) Extension area. The proposed development is a 264,009 sqft and 22-storey office building providing approximately 258,245 sqft of office space with 5,764 sqft of retail at grade.
The building‘s architectural expression is a sculpted form achieved by a process of subtraction in response to contextual constraints. What meets the ground as a rectangular form is transformed through a terraced low rise base, angular high rise tower form to create a ‘crystalline’ building that addresses the site and its relation to nearby Victory Square. The building form is driven by a deep recognition of the significance of Victory Square throughout the entire calendar year. Sculpting the upper portion of the building yields a building form that balances the generation of job space with the preservation of the quality of space within Victory Square. The resultant volume is broken down into various components through massing and façade articulation in order to relate to context and produce legible architecture. These components can be organized into three elements: base, low-rise, and tower. The unique façade expression is informed by both the building’s historical context and performative building envelope design. The texture created on the façade responds to fenestration qualities found within the retained Cleland-Kent building façade in addition to buildings within the immediate context of Crosstown, Gastown, and Chinatown.
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Anvil Centre & Merchant Square
Anvil Centre & Merchant Square
Located at the intersection of 8th and Columbia streets, Anvil Centre and Merchant Square is a multi-use civic facility. The project’s name was inspired by the anvil’s unique place in New Westminster’s history as a symbol of craftsmanship and strength, recalling the city’s proud roots as one of the province’s original industrial centres.
The Class A, 9-storey tower called Merchant Square, rises above the civic centre with the entire assembly resting on three levels of underground parking. This facility includes a 350-seat non-proscenium theatre, convention facilities and meeting space, purpose-built and multi-purpose rooms for the arts, an art gallery and a new home for the City’s Museum and Archives and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The new facility is a major revitalization initiative for New Westminster and main anchor point from the Columbia skytrain station.
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1111 Kingsway
1111 Kingsway
Located in the heart of East Vancouver’s Cedar Cottage neighborhood, this project is a thoughtfully designed rental residential development. As part of the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP), it will offer over 120 rental units, with 20% designated at below-market rates. The building features a slender tower that serves as a distinctive landmark at the primary corner, complemented by a five-storey podium. The ground floor hosts commercial spaces, while townhouses line the adjacent lane, creating a vibrant and diverse streetscape.
Designed to integrate seamlessly with its surroundings, the building establishes a strong street presence along Kingsway while thoughtfully stepping down towards the neighboring single-family homes. The podium rooftop offers a spacious, south-facing outdoor amenity area for residents. At street level, an expanded public realm includes a small park space at the corner, contributing to the community’s accessibility and vibrancy. Balancing public benefits, much-needed rental housing, and sensitivity to the existing neighborhood context, this development aims to enrich both its residents and the broader community.
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155 Water Street
155 Water Street
155 Water Street is a 7 storey boutique building in the heart of Gastown. 155 Water Street combines two historic sites, the old Harper Warehouse and BC Plate Glass & Importing Co. Due to the historic significance of these two buildings the new design retains the two historical facades fronting Water Street.
On the east façade, within a private breezeway, the profile of one of the historic buildings is reconstructed using salvage bricks. The design of the new building is an elegant steel and glass structure giving the new design a contemporary and modern industrial feel. The bases of the project consist of retail on the ground floor accessed off Water Street with the remaining storeys dedicated to office use. The building has an outdoor rooftop amenity space that has 360-degree views of the north shore, downtown and Gastown. This project is targeting Leed Gold Certification.
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Five | Ten Seymour
Five | Ten Seymour
510 Seymour is a 10 Storey boutique office building located at the expanding eastern edge of downtown Vancouver’s business district. The building houses a diverse program of uses on a compact urban site including a restaurant, retail, post-secondary school, general office and extensive amenities. The design for 510 was conceptualized as a ‘jewel in a box’, referring to the refined but textured curtain wall facing north and west that is encapsulated by a cast in place concrete facades facing the lane and interior lot line.
Two levels of below-grade parking are accessed by parking elevators off the lane necessitated by the compact site size of approximately 8,000 sq FT. Above grade are nine floors of office and institutional space. The roof of the building includes an expansive amenity terrace that includes seating areas and a weather protected BBQ area.
Location: Vancouver
Size: 82,000 sf
Client: Serracan Properties
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13335 King George
13335 King George
13335 King George Blvd is a residential, transit-oriented development comprised of three tower and two mid-rise buildings, to be constructed in five phases. The site is prominent along this major thoroughfare into Surrey City Centre. It includes a plaza space to engage the future creek pathway planned across the street. It includes a daycare and cafe, as well as a generous courtyard-style plaza for residents.
There are over 1000 units, and they include 2-bed and 3-bed townhomes, condos, rental apartments, and penthouses for a diverse mix of housing. There is a daycare included for both residents and heighbours. Three corner plazas punctuate this 16,000 sq.m. site. District energy connection is required for this development, and Step Code 2 energy perfomance is planned. The building envelopes have a reduced percentage of glazing to reduce energy load and improve building performance using a passive solution.
Location: Surrey
Size: 900,000 sf
Client: New Great Land Developing Ltd.
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720 Robson
720 Robson
The heritage facade on Granville Street was retained and rehabilitated within the project to form one component of a two-storey retail podium of approximately 19,000 square feet.
The balance of the site’s existing commercial density is utilized on site in the form of three floors of office space above the two-level retail podium. These office floor plates range from approximately 6,000 to 7,000 sf, seen as optimal in this market sector. Below grade parking for 27 cars is also provided.
Location: Vancouver
Size: 43,000 sf
Client: Vancouver & Shanghai Land Ltd.
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