BCIT Beedie Plaza
PFS Studio led the design process to prepare a concept for defining the key gateway to BCIT and to provide a major campus gathering space. The project provided for a strong sense welcoming to campus and creating a social heart. In working with the Indigenous representation, a traditional Musqueam basket weave pattern was incorporated into […]
Westminster Pier Park Play Area at Sixth Street
PFS Studio was the landscape architect for the Sixth Street Play Area, an addition to the westward end of Westminster Pier Park in Downtown New Westminster, BC. The project continues implementation of the Riverfront Vision Plan to revitalize the historic Waterfront Precinct, maximize its utility to the community, and fully realize its potential as a […]
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 […]
