BCIT Beedie Plaza
PFS Studio led the design process to prepare a concept for defining the key gateway to BCIT and to provide a major campus gathering space. The project provided for a strong sense welcoming to campus and creating a social heart. In working with the Indigenous representation, a traditional Musqueam basket weave pattern was incorporated into […]
Westminster Pier Park Play Area at Sixth Street
PFS Studio was the landscape architect for the Sixth Street Play Area, an addition to the westward end of Westminster Pier Park in Downtown New Westminster, BC. The project continues implementation of the Riverfront Vision Plan to revitalize the historic Waterfront Precinct, maximize its utility to the community, and fully realize its potential as a […]
West End Waterfront Parks and Beach Avenue Plan
PFS Studio is leading the West End Waterfront Parks and Beach Avenue Plan—a master plan for the parks, beaches and streets spanning from Stanley Park to Burrard Bridge. The design strategy stresses decolonization and Reconciliation; climate change and sea level rise adaptation; foreshore and upland ecological restoration; equity and accessibility; multimodal movement and connectivity; programming […]
Library Garden and Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre UBC
PFS Studio was the lead landscape architect for the Library Garden project and worked closely with the client and architects to design and implement a renewal of a central campus open space and to integrate a new building within it that is the western Canada centre for archives, research, and public education on the history […]
Capilano University Fulmer Family Centre for Childhood Studies
The Capilano University Fulmer Family Centre for Childhood Studies is a purpose-built facility integrating teaching, research, and experiential learning for the Department of Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE). The building provides 74 childcare spaces at grade and ECCE classrooms above, situated beside an environmentally sensitive woodland atop a stream bank. The design prioritizes preservation […]
Telus Garden
The Telus Garden project transformed an aging block of downtown Vancouver into an architectural icon of advanced technology and environmental stewardship. The mixed use project includes two towers – a 22 story office tower that was the new head office for Telus, and a 44 story residential tower. The office tower was the first building […]
Vancouver Post Office
The Post’s public plaza on Georgia Street provides one of the project’s signature expressions of the reimagined Post building. A series of broad steps and seating takes advantage of the grade differential across the front of the site. These steps are embellished by a rich texturing of active water features, formal plantings, and extensive seating. […]
Hummingbird Childcare – River Green Lot 13
The daycare for River Green Village is sited next to a green space that is protected for its environmentally sensitive habitat and to retain a portion of the woodlot planted by an early settler, Samuel Brighouse. The outdoor play space is an intimate courtyard with open views into the woods through large windows in the […]
University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Master Plan
The UBC Okanagan Master Plan led by PFS Studio was initiated to create a UBC campus in the interior of British Columbia. It was the first significant expansion of UBC’s presence outside of Vancouver and intended to respond to a growing interest in UBC from students outside of the Lower Mainland. The campus is located on […]
Vancouver House
Located beneath and between the north end of Vancouver’s Granville Bridge and its on / off ramps, Vancouver House creates a sculptural gateway into the downtown peninsula. The three triangular blocks reinvent two iconic Vancouver-based models of urbanism: the podium point tower and Granville Island’s mixed use, village-scaled urbanism. Working with Copenhagen’s Bjarke Ingels Group […]
