Brackendale Community Apartments
Brackendale, BC
The site was selected on the basis of its longstanding community value and the design intent is to maintain the existing general store and post office, while also honoring it through material and massing cues – while simultaneously acknowledging the pressing need to provide much-needed rental apartments in Brackendale. The property is constrained by significant SPEA setbacks that govern both new buildings and lot coverage.
BCIT Campus Walk Study
Burnaby, BC
BCIT has an explicit and rigorous pedagogy of showing how the world works and comes together. We worked with them to advance their campus walk precinct to stitch together disparate parts of the campus with a building strategy that lays bare the mechanics of construction and campus services. It was weirdly exciting… like getting paid to go to school.
Photography: Carscadden
Grandview Elementary Outdoor Classroom
Vancouver, BC
One of Bruce’s first projects. A kind of started it all sort of effort and really a true distillation of his ambitions as an architect: thoughtfully detailed, elegantly scaled, and in service of an oft-overlooked group.
Renfrew Park Community Centre Upgrades
Vancouver, BC
Sometimes what starts as necessary and technical code and seismic upgrades results in much, much more. A five year process saw this community favourite lovingly upgraded to not only meet modern safety standards but to feature a large hot pool cantilevered over the spectacular Renfrew Ravine, a bright new lobby, and Canada’s first ever use of glass lockers.
Kensington & Robert Burnaby Park Washrooms
Burnaby, BC
Vanguards of a quiet renaissance in BC public washrooms, Robert Burnaby and Kensington Park Washroom Buildings redefine the standards of park amenity buildings. Playful, durable as all get out, and each crafted to respond to their peculiar sites, these modest buildings are the grandparents for 20 years of park infrastructure.