The area around San Jose is, of course, Silicon Valley – but the history of the region is much longer than that. Once upon a time there were orchards on the site. Our challenge was to combine San Jose’s past…

The key challenge was to turn an unglamorous functional building type, indeed one that had blighted the perception of Slough in the past, into a new landmark and gateway building. We did this by questioning the…

The airport terminal building type is wrought with code and agency approval…but in this particular small project these paper limits lead to thoughtful master planning and a careful insertion of an…

Since its conception, the project Inner Forest, was closely joint to the surroundings that lodged it. During the development of the project…

The most difficult issue from a design perspective was developing a design which could be moved after five years and then reinstalled in sectional parts at other points on the campus…

Working in an environment of a living tree, where there are no building codes. The tree needed structural testing using a ‘ping-test’ where a rope and measuring system was set up to test the trunk…

As architects we mostly work for public or private clients and are not used to realize works in real public space. We were amazed on how many meetings we had to attend and how many people we…

The challenges we faced were also our goals. First, the School of Pharmacy was created in partnership with the City of Kitchener. Its creation was part of a wider revitalization of the downtown…

Academic learning centers for student athletes in general is an evolving building type, the main challenge in this building was composing a program which focused on the “life and challenges” of a student…

Convincing a client who had worked out of a split level two story library for forty years that we could make a six story solution easy to operate and navigate was one of…