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Raincity Green Roof Best Practices

PFS Studio is very pleased to have collaborated with the City of Vancouver and an exceptional team of subconsultants and subject matter experts to help develop the Rain City Green Roof Best Practices Guide, released publicly in early 2026. The Guide represents a meaningful step forward for Vancouver and other municipalities seeking to implement green […]

2026 LACF Research Grant Recipients

We’re proud of Lin Lin, our PFS Senior Associate, who served as a juror representing the British Columbia region for the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF) 2025 and 2026 Research Grants Program. Congratulations to the 2026 LACF Research Grants recipients! Lin helped support impactful research, communication, and scholarship in landscape architecture across Canada.

Ground Blessing at the Japanese Canadian Monument Park

On October 28, the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations held a ground blessing and cedar brushing ceremony on the future site of the Japanese Canadian Monument Park in Victoria, BC — marking the official beginning of construction this fall. Led by Elder Mary Ann Thomas and speaker Carmen Dick, the traditional ceremony blessed the land […]

PFS Studio’s Howard Rosenblat and his academic colleagues at the University of Toronto have been published in ‘Nature Cities Journal’.

As landscape architects, we often design green roofs and rain gardens to help slow, store and filter rainwater; improve air quality, reduce heat intensity, and enhance biodiversity and habitat. Green roofs and rain gardens can also enhance amenity, childcare, and urban agricultural spaces, while increasing access to nature, and expanding educational opportunities. PFS Studio’s Howard […]

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 Our offices are located on the traditional, ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Nations.   These lands are still home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live, work and play on these lands every day. PFS Studio is dedicated to moving forward in the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation in all the work we do.

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Our offices are located on the traditional, ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa,
Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Nations. These lands are still home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the
opportunity to live, work and play on these lands every day. PFS Studio is dedicated to moving forward in the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation in all the work we do.