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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lennar Town Hall
FS Studio designed a block wide public realm precinct adjacent to Seattle’s iconic Freeway Park. This multi-use redevelopment incorporates office, residential, retail, and refurbished historic building and well-loved cultural institution, Seattle’s Town Hall. The public realm design includes two public mews that connect mid-block to a significant terraced plaza with water features, biofiltration planters, a […]
Oakridge Centre Redevelopment
The comprehensive open space system at Oakridge consists of a nine-acre public park, a new High Street, plazas, and a variety of engaging streetscapes. These public spaces will be well-connected with each other as well as the accessible, programmable public roof top, the adjacent neighbourhoods, the Canada Line station, and the City greenway/bikeway system. These […]
