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: Vancouver Board of Education Vancouver, BC [location] This new elementary school for a population of 450 students is a two-storey facility, with a rooftop childcare centre owned by the City of Vancouver. To facilitate the continued operation of the existing school building (which occupied the centre of the site prior to its demolition)… Read more »
Completion: Owner: School District #43 (Coquitlam) LEED Silver (equivalent) [location] The new Glen School was built as replacement to an old school facility which needed to remain operational during the construction period, despite considerable site restrictions. The replacement building, sited at the location of the former sports field, was conceived as a two story structure… 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: Conseil Scolaire Francophone (SD#93) LEED Gold Award Winning Campbell River, BC [location] This project is a new 1,600 m2 elementary school for the Conseil Scolaire Francophone (BC’s francophone school district) and includes a daycare / preschool facility. Embracing both sustainability and the emerging pedagogy for primary education, the design responds with new spatial… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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