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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Master Plan
The UBC Okanagan Master Plan led by PFS Studio was initiated to create a UBC campus in the interior of British Columbia. It was the first significant expansion of UBC’s presence outside of Vancouver and intended to respond to a growing interest in UBC from students outside of the Lower Mainland. The campus is located on […]
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 […]
Langara College Master Plan + Library
As a key contributor to a large multi-disciplinary team, PFS Studio has played a pivotal role in the development of a campus master plan and a series of open space planning strategies to guide the expansion of Langara College to the year 2030. The development of the College Library served as a catalyst for a […]
Vaughan Civic Centre + Civic Precinct
Working closely with lead consultants KPMB, PFS Studio developed the landscape strategy and design for this new City Hall in Vaughan, Ontario. The general framework of the civic campus was inspired by rural planning principles of the past and agricultural patterns of the surrounding region, and organized linearly in an east – west orientation. The […]
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 […]
Coal Harbour Marina Neighbourhood
PFS Studio was the landscape architect for the initial phase of the redevelopment of Coal Harbour, one of the first private developments to reimagine and repurpose a massive area of Vancouver’s post-industrial waterfront. Coal Harbour has become the premier address in Vancouver’s downtown peninsula—in addition to the spectacular views and proximity to Stanley Park, the […]
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 […]
