Surrey, BC [location] Addressing Surrey School district’s rapid growth while enhancing the quality of its learning environments, this two-story school addition exemplifies the thoughtful integration of sustainable design and 21st century learning principles on a restrictive site. Conceived as a 1,000 m² extension to the original single-story school (built in 1989), the addition provides eight… 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 »
Vancouver, BC [location] This school design was all about achieving excellence through efficiency. In fact, post-occupancy analysis has demonstrated this to be the Vancouver School District’s most energy efficient school by a wide margin. Achieving peak energy performance began with passive design fundamentals, including: an east-west orientation and carefully designed windows that bring natural light… 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: 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 »
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