Dawson Creek, BC [location] The Northern Lights College Cultural Arbour is a 450-seat covered outdoor amphitheatre, intended to support the college community and local Indigenous peoples with a flexible outdoor gathering place for education, ceremony, and public events. Located at the main entry to the campus, on the main route through town, this multi-purpose venue… Read more »
Tachie, BC [location] This new public building for the Tl’azt’en First Nation will be located in their remote community of Tachie, in north-central British Columbia. The intent is to provide an important gathering place and shared public amenities as a focal point for the community, imbued with Tl’azt’en culture and language, and proudly supporting their… Read more »
Hazleton, BC [location] This new Indigenous high school, located in northern BC, will serve the three First Nation communities of Gitwangak, Gitanyow, and Gitsegukla, whose objective is to “Empower [their] youth through a new secondary school that will offer an innovative combination of provincial curriculum and Gitxsan traditional learning”. The Gitxsan peoples’ ancient pattern of… Read more »
Lake Errock, BC [location] The Sq’ewlets Child Care centre, located in the heart of the Sq’ewlets community in Lake Errock, British Columbia, provides 12 infant-toddler spaces and 24 spaces for children between three and five. This new 450 m² facility benefits from a central location beside established community facilities such as a playground, administration building,… Read more »
108 Mile Ranch, BC [location] This is a joint project for five First Nations in the interior plateau of British Columbia. Their intent is to celebrate and exhibit their history and cultural traditions for the general public – and for their own peoples – within an accessible, local facility. The design proposes a responsible model… Read more »
Completion: Owner: Snuneymuxw First Nation Snuneymuxw First Nation, Nanaimo BC This new elementary school for the Snuneymuxw First Nation offers a contemporary educational environment that supports 21st Century educational principles, while cloaked in a building form that takes inspiration from the traditional architecture of the Coast Salish People. The new school contains classrooms, project rooms… Read more »
Completion: Owner: University of British Columbia Award Winning Vancouver, BC The First Nations House of Learning at UBC provides a place for First Nations on the University campus that addresses the past and the future simultaneously. The building form combines the simplicity of traditional construction with a more contemporary form, thus emphasizing the progressive nature… Read more »
Completion: Owner: WSANEC School Board South Saanich Indian Reserve, Brentwood Bay Serving the students from the four Coast Salish Indian bands forming the WSANEC School Board, this new junior-high school is located on the South Saanich Indian Reserve, 25 km north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. The new building is sited at the entry of… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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