Seattle Art Museum Roof Garden
Located above the Seattle Art Museum expansion, the 17th floor roof garden is a green roof that functions as a vital social space and civic heart of the downtown headquarters. As one of the largest green roofs in the city, the garden’s usable area surpasses three fold the City of Seattle’s minimum open space requirements, […]
UBC Buchanan Courtyard
As part of the UBC Renew Program, the iconic Modernist Buchanan buildings underwent a significant revitalization that included the reinvention of associated courtyards and perimeter spaces. The Renew Program retains the historical, cultural and financial value inherent in campus architecture while revitalizing buildings and landscapes to make them more sustainable. PFS Studio developed a conceptual […]
Bathurst Quay Common
The Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Plan emerged from a highly collaborative partnership between PFS Studio, the City of Toronto, Waterfront Toronto, key stakeholders, and the community. The project sought to transform a historically layered and fragmented waterfront precinct into a cohesive and connected public realm, one that reconciles industrial heritage, cultural programming, and everyday public life […]
Vimy Memorial Restoration
Being a part of the team charged with the restoration of the Vimy Monument and surrounding grounds was the ultimate honour for a Canadian design firm. The importance of this sacred site as a part of the Canadian psyche can not be overstated. Walter Allward’s monument needs few words to describe it, as its iconic […]
Frye Museum House (707 Terry Ave)
The landscape design for Westbank’s Frye Development responds to the design and programming of the Frye Museum across the street. A large high quality forecourt with banded stone paving, ipe topped underlit seating, a small stage and art platform, a significant water feature and lush massings of west coast plantings create a programmable plaza for […]
Audain Art Museum
The Audain Art Museum, located in Whistler BC, is carefully sited within a mature Pacific Northwest mountain landscape. The museum is a masterful work by Patkau Architects and houses the private art collection of Michael Audain. His extraordinary collection includes both contemporary works and historic Indigenous art. The building is nestled into a forested floodplain, […]
5th & Madison
Centrally located in Seattle’s urban core, the California Centre at 909 West Fifth Avenue and Madison Street is adjacent to the Seattle Public Library and a number of other iconic buildings in the city’s financial district. As a redevelopment site, the importance of the context could not be overlooked and, in response, the project delivered […]
Coal Harbour Marina Neighbourhood
PFS Studio was the landscape architect for the initial phase of the redevelopment of Coal Harbour, one of the first private developments to reimagine and repurpose a massive area of Vancouver’s post-industrial waterfront. Coal Harbour has become the premier address in Vancouver’s downtown peninsula—in addition to the spectacular views and proximity to Stanley Park, the […]
UBC University Boulevard + Stormwater Terraces
University Boulevard is now considered the open space jewel of the UBC campus and while it has played a long and important role throughout campus history, it is now being redeveloped to reaffirm its place as the gateway and social heart of the university community in conjunction with many new project initiatives that have unfolded […]
Tyndale Green
PFS Studio is working with Collecdev-Markee Developments and an extensive multidisciplinary team on the creation of a new large-scale community at Tyndale University, where the university and surrounding neighbourhood will grow and thrive together. The landscape is organized through a series of multi-scalar open spaces shaped by the site’s proximity to Toronto’s ravine system. A […]