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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745 Thurlow
745 Thurlow
This new 418,000 sq 22 storey tower provides floor plate sizes of 15,500 to 21,000 sq includes three levels of retail and restaurant space, a 3rd-floor patio to the south and west sides, and a green roof patio area with amenity spaces for tenant use. Six levels of underground parking are provided for 309 cars.
The tower’s striking geometry comprised of two interlocking volumes – a dark green prism rising outward from the podium to the east and south, and a cube with clear anodized mullions and expressed spandrel panels to the north and west provides a sculptural response to program and site constraints. A dramatic sloping glazed canopy follows the Thurlow and Alberni Street frontages.
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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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Renfrew Centre
Renfrew Centre
Located across from the Renfrew Skytrain station, this second phase of Renfrew Business Centre, consisting of a new office building with commercial retail at the ground floor. The building interfaces with the existing Arts Institute activating the entry plaza from Renfrew Street. This Class A office building provides larger floor plates (23,000 to 25,000 sf) to accommodate tenants with contiguous floor requirements in direct proximity to public transit.
A feature of this project is the innovative use of building form for shading the building. Inspired by a “drape” blowing in the wind, the sinuous curve of the building identifies this active area in front of the Renfrew SkyTrain station. The public realm is designed for the pedestrian in mind coming from the station and entering this new commercial precinct in the heart of East Vancouver.
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625 West Hastings
625 West Hastings
The proposed development is a 150,611 SF, 30-storey office building with 2 levels of below-grade parking, accessed by two vehicle elevators. The massing conforms to the heights of the site’s view cone parameters. The office tower is broken down into three equal parts that gradually recess and relate to the proportions of the adjacent heritage Royal Bank building. Pattern and articulation are created on the façade by the varying depths of vertical fins. Clear anodized aluminum extrusions provide contrast and detail while maintaining a connection to the existing heritage façade and floor levels. The structure of the new office will create a unique opportunity to design a new lateral loading resisting system that can support both buildings while providing a seismic upgrade to the Royal Bank.
The proposed building plays its part in completing the streetscape along Hastings Street while maintaining its own unique quality.
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Coast Capital Savings
Coast Capital Savings
Coast Capital is not your typical financial institution so it couldn’t be your standard monolithic bank building. It had to mirror the organization’s innovative, irreverent, fun-loving brand. This is a building that speaks to their values and reflects the growing reputation of Surrey as a business, innovation and transit centre.
The building is progressive and sets the tone for the future with a dynamic built form that engages movement and stands apart. It starts with the same efficient, functional 20,000sf rectangular floor manipulated in space over 10 storeys to produce a dynamic form. The exterior is a composition of glass and colour that is less hierarchal and representative of Coast’s culture, employees, and community. West coast colours that graduate from green/brown (ground) to blue/grey (sky). Streaks of colour to indicate motion or direction which is sliced to reveal “end grain” or mosaic. It creates identity and pride of place for their employees.
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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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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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CDM 1933
CDM 1933
This development, adjacent to the recently completed Centre for Digital Media (CDM 685) building at Great Northern Way Campus, evolves the physical expression of media and transforms the idea of ribbon to this new 4-level office building with an industrial context. The building book-ends the eastern district of the campus and signifies the wave of positive change in the Mount Pleasant community.
Location: Vancouver
Size: 51,000 sf
Client: Great Northern Way Campus Trust
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First West Credit Union
First West Credit Union
This 6 storey building concept with average 20,000sf floors fulfils the spatial and technical needs of the First West Credit Union with a superior workspace that is highly visible at an important junction in Langley: 200th St. and Hwy. 1. It is a comfortable, functional and efficient workspace with amenities that is an architectural statement but is also a building with meaning that promotes “pride of place”.
Credit Unions embody the moral of one of Aesop’s Fables (600BC): “strength in unity.” This building is composed of slightly different linear forms that are bundled together to represent a stronger unified form. This concept recalls the metaphor Aesop used: “this bundle of sticks you cannot break, take them singly, with ease, you may break as you please”.
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