The vision included a dense, walkable downtown core with easy access and mobility for pedestrians and vehicles. Working closely with the client, we ensured the campus fit within the long-range goals of Community Identity the city put forward through their Downtown 21 initiative. The emphasis was on creating and animating the open spaces of each of the sites while developing and integrating the public realm.

Following the adoption of the long-term strategic plan for the province’s Keele Wilson Campus in Toronto, reinforcing the city’s vision and commitment to public art, we developed a Public Art Master Plan to identify appropriate locations within the campus where public art would best contribute to enriching the public realm. The first commissioned location was at the main pedestrian gateway from Wilson Avenue as part of the Forensic Science precinct. We collaborated with artist Steven Beites on siting and creating an appropriate context within which to set Steven’s interactive sculpture. 

Waterloo Town Square is a dynamic, urban focal point for the city’s uptown shopping district. Collaborating with BNKC Architects, the successful revitalization is based on a vibrant design that includes a civic gathering space with an exhibition area, a performance stage, a transit hub, and an ice rink. 

“The Square is a place for friends and neighbours to gather in the heart of vibrant uptown Waterloo. The City of Waterloo works with many groups and organizations to ensure the square is hopping with activity, from concerts and festivals to markets and everything in between.” 
– City of Waterloo 

A change in the city’s Land Use Policies in the early 1980s created the rise of a local artist community in Los Angeles’ inner core, flourishing with affordable vacant industrial buildings offering studio and living spaces. 

The strategic location of the district, relative to Los Angeles’ downtown core and the Los Angeles River, reinforces the district’s connections within the city’s urban fabric, promoting connectivity to the city-wide mass transit and open space systems, thus infusing an initiative to restore, enhance, and sustain social, environmental, and economic value within the district. 

Employing research heavily informed by Open Data to frame our site selection and design program for three independent sites, we assembled eight properties to create a unified open space system in central Melbourne. The site is over 11 hectares and expands almost 700 metres, north to south.  

The Yarra River Park project, an initiative to reclaim the riverbank for the ecological, recreational, and economic benefit of the city, is responsible for creating a green oasis in the city heart, connecting Fisherman’s Bend National Employment and Innovation Cluster, Central Business District of Melbourne, and Parkville National Employment and Innovation Cluster.  

Working with Archi-tectonics, a New York City-based architecture firm, we realized a variety of culturally relevant public realm spaces for the Yulin Cultural Arts Centre in Yulin, Shaanxi, China. 

The program called for a mix of cultural features, including a museum, performing arts centre, and art block. The concept created distinct buildings connected by exterior spaces and galleries. The inspiration for the Hutong, which are semi-public garden spaces with small shops, was used to integrate the housing into the scheme and offer sheltered spaces for the residents. 

In This Moment artfully proposes a consideration of the passage of time and how it shapes our memory of a place or object. As the Wall of Segovia stands today, nightfall and sunrise choreograph a repetitive environmental phenomenon of its disappearance and reappearance as light diffusion shifts and the Wall’s visibility in the landscape recedes or saturates. Our lighting installation aims to heighten viewers’ attention to this subtle occurrence by mimicking the movement of light in the sky through colour gradients varying by time of day, with fluid motions of water implying the fleeting notion of time. In the daytime, the Wall is re-animated in texture as reflections of water ripples dance on the Wall’s surface. The Wall re-emerges at the onset of dusk, blending with the horizon in brilliant luminescent LED colours. 
  

Urban design direction formed the tenure for public realm elements associated with establishing a new city centre district of 75 hectares and 2.8 kilometres of public waterfront: Jinsha Lake frontage. Detailed site analysis and design development for the entire waterfront and public realm areas, including the interface with public and private lands, formed opportunities to integrate public and semi-private realms.