Butterfield Park (OCAD)
Over nearly a decade, PFS Studio has worked with OCAD University and the surrounding community to reimagine Butterfield Park beneath Will Alsop’s iconic tabletop building. The redesign transforms what was once an inward-facing plaza into a welcoming and flexible campus commons in downtown Toronto. Previously, the plaza was constrained by limited permeability, sparse planting, and […]
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 […]
Mirvish Village Park
PFS Studio collaborated with Westbank, Henriquez Partners Architects, and the Mirvish Village Task Group to complete the vision for the New Mirvish Village Park. The design takes inspiration from the iconic Honest Ed’s signage, with its brightly-lit filigrees and swirls, to create a space resembling the formal ‘jardin à la française’ found in France. Within […]
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 […]
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, […]
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
PFS Studio was the lead consultant of a multi-disciplinary team for this nationally significant project, which was integrated into the National War Memorial site at Confederation Square in Ottawa in 2000. The firm provided design services and established the form, materiality and siting of the sarcophagus, which included sensitive modifications to the plinth of the […]
