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 »
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 Island University LEED Platinum Award Winning Deep Bay, Vancouver Island [location] This Field Station in Deep Bay, BC, for the Malaspina University-College, Centre for Shellfish Research consists of an upper main building connected by walkway to a lower support building and tank farm. The upper building houses aquaculture research and lecture labs… Read more »
Completion: Owner: University of British Columbia LEED Gold Award Winning Vancouver, BC [location] In support of UBC’s Sustainability Initiative (USI), the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF) was developed as a demonstration facility, intended to showcase not only energy co-generation by gasification, but also cross laminated timber construction (CLT), as part of the USI’s “campus… Read more »
Completion: Owner: University of British Columbia LEED Gold Kelowna, BC [location] This addition to the existing gymnasium complex at UBC’s Okanagan Campus is an athletic training facility that pushes the structural boundaries and aesthetic potential of mass timber construction. The project is the result of a design-build competition aimed at demonstrating innovative wood construction technology,… 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 »
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