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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Underpass Park
Underpass Park is a unique public space located under and around the Richmond and Adelaide overpasses in downtown east Toronto. This new park transforms a derelict and underused space into a functional and engaging urban neighbourhood amenity, reconnecting new and preexisting neighbourhoods in a dynamic and flexible manner. What was once a “no man’s land”, […]
Hastings Park Restoration Plan
The Hastings Park Restoration Plan was a multiple award winning comprehensive master plan for the transformation of the Pacific National Exhibition site into a large, high profile community park in East Vancouver. PFS Studio was the prime consultant to the Vancouver Park Board on this project since its inception, developing the long term plan through […]
Southeast False Creek
PFS Studio was engaged by the City of Vancouver to design and implement the plaza at the heart of the new Southeast False Creek community in time to be the focus of celebrations for the 2010 Olympic Village that occupied the community during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The design, endorsed by both the Vancouver […]
Redmond Downtown Park
For the Redmond Downtown Park Master Plan, PFS Studio developed and implemented an extensive public engagement strategy and design for a two acre park that acts as the central gathering place for Downtown Redmond Feature text. Redmond Downtown Park’s design is highly flexible and provides both 365-day use of the park, and venues suited to […]
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 […]
Jericho Lands
PFS Studio are the landscape architects on a team led by Urban Strategies to develop a policy document for the Jericho Lands, a 90-acre post-military site co-owned and developed in a joint venture partnership between the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (MST) Partnership, and the Canada Lands Company (CLC). Developed closely with cultural liaisons from Musqueam, […]
Grange Park
PFS Studio worked with the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Mr. Galen Weston, the City of Toronto and the Grange Park Advisory Committee to undertake the restoration and revitalization of the historic Grange Park, adjacent to the AGO in downtown Toronto. The park is strikingly beautiful, resilient, sustainable, and accessible. The design is anchored by […]
