Month: November 2015

Gulf Islands Operations Centre

Gulf Islands Operations Completion: Owner: Parks Canada & PWGSC LEED Platinum [location] The new Operations Centre for the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve is a three-storey building housing the park operations and administration staff. The lowest level is oriented towards the waterfront and is primarily a support facility for the field operations. The upper two floors accommodate administration… Read more »

Tla’Amin Community Health Centre

Tla'Amin Community Health Centre Completion: Owner: Tla’Amin First Nation Award Winning Powell River, BC The Tla’Amin Community Health & Multi-purpose Centre houses the integrated primary medical, dental, social services and traditional healing programs for the Sliammon First Nation. The facility is located on the Sliammon Reserve, north of Powell River on the Sunshine Coast. The building is a multipurpose… Read more »

École Au-coeur-de-l’ile

Completion: Owner: Conseil Scolaire Francophone (SD#93) LEED Gold Comox, BC [location] École Au-coeur-de-l’ile is a state-of-the-art community school for the francophone population of the Comox-Courtenay area. Built for a population of 380 students, the new building is developed to function as a cutting edge learning environment by day, and as a community hub by night…. Read more »

Environmental Learning Centre

Environmental Learning Centre Completion: Owner: North Vancouver School District LEED Platinum Award Winning Brackendale, BC [location] Set in a lush river valley in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Cheakamus Centre (formerly known as the North Vancouver Outdoor School) offers outdoor environmental and indigenous learning programs in a rich rainforest environment that includes significant stands of old growth… Read more »

Hesquiaht School and Community Centre

Completion: Owner: Hesquiaht Band [location] The new educational facility for the remote Hesquiaht community is more than a K-12 school, it has become the centre of the community, accommodating day-care, scholastic, cultural, gathering and sporting functions. Given its location in the heart of Clayoquot sound, a remote area of the west coast of Vancouver Island… Read more »

Aboriginal Gathering Place

Completion: Owner: Royal Roads University [location] The Aboriginal Learning and Cultural Centre, known as The Gathering Place, at Royal Roads University, Victoria, enjoys an inspirational setting on the edge of Esquimalt Lagoon, with delightful views in every direction. The design converts a wood frame row boat storage building into a vibrant multi-purpose space: a focal… Read more »

Tsartlip Health Centre

Completion: Owner: Tsartlip First Nation South Saanich Indian Reserve, Brentwood Bay, BC Located on the South Saanich Indian Reserve, this community health centre provides the Tsartlip First Nation with a broad spectrum of health services, including counselling, dental care, medical exams, prenatal classes, elders programs, diabetes education, nutrition, and early childhood support. The new facility… Read more »

Nazko Health Centre

Completion: Owner: Nazko First Nation Nazko, BC [location] Located in the remote interior of the province 100 km west of Quesnel, this small community health centre provides a variety of health services to the members of the Nazko First Nation. Combining the essentials of primary care with indigenous concepts for well-being, the facility houses clinics… Read more »

Sxoxomic School Replacement

Completion: Owner: Esk’etemc First Nation Alkali Lake, BC [location] Located in the remote BC interior, east of Williams Lake, the small Northern Secwepemc community of Esk’etemc has vowed to keep its youngest children in the community for their elementary education and provide a nurturing education up to grade 7. Their new facility, conceived in close… Read more »

Kingsford-Smith School Seismic Upgrade

Completion: Owner: Vancouver Board of Education Vancouver, BC [location] The seismic upgrade of the Kingsford-Smith Elementary School provided a great opportunity for the renewal of this 1950’s school building, thanks to a thorough analysis of scope and costs combined with our search for synergies between functional goals and structural requirements. This search led to an… Read more »