Completion: Owner: City of Vancouver Award Winning Vancouver, BC [location] Located in near the urban core of Vancouver, this floating facility serves the huge demand for public padding programs in False Creek by providing instruction, boats and equipment for public use, and hosting paddling competitions – including North America’s largest Dragon Boat Festival. The concept… 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: 2007Owner: University of British Columbia Richmond, BC The John MS Lecky UBC Boathouse is a two-storey floating building, surrounded by floating concrete docks for the launching of rowing shells as well as the storage of dragon boats and motorized coach boats. Situated on the Middle Arm of the Fraser River, the building is accessed… Read more »
Completion: Owner: University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Marking the eastern gateway to the engineering precinct on the UBC campus, the project gives form to a new engineering program focused on integrated design. It has been recognized that with traditional engineering programs there was very little interaction among the disciplines (mechanical, electrical, civil, etc.), which… 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: 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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