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 […]
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 […]
Sherbourne Common
The conceptual design for the multi-award winning Sherbourne Common, located on the Toronto Waterfront, is built upon the abstraction of the Iconic Canadian lakeshore landscape types: the woods, the water, and the green. These three spatial zones are tied together by a linear stormwater sluice fed by ‘Light Showers’ by Jill Anholt. As a key […]
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 […]
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”, […]
Lansdowne Park
PFS Studio submitted the winning entry in an international design competition for a new urban waterfront park at Ottawa’s historic Lansdowne Park. The plan recomposed the entire Lansdowne site, turning asphalt into green; renovating, relocating and repurposing a remarkable historic building for community use; and wrapping a refurbished sports stadium with an undulating topography and […]
Front Street East Promenade + Park
Front Street East Promenade + Park, the open space heart of the West Don Lands, is both a street and a park. It extends Corktown Common, by MVVA, westward towards the city as a bold new green street. PFS Studio redesigned a previously planned wide, axial alignment of Front Street East to an asymmetrical one […]
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
PFS Studio was part of KPMB Architects’s multidisciplinary team responsible for the winning design for the new research building at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. The project forms part of CAMH’s broader transformation of its historic Queen Street West campus into an open, integrated urban district dedicated to mental health […]
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 […]
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 […]
