Public City Architecture

The Open is a public washroom in the East Village of Calgary. It is the winning submission of a national public design competition hosted by the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation. The hybrid landscape architecture and architecture facility marries sport with utility and program with place in an effort to answer one fundamental question: is it […]

Forest Pavilion is a four-season structure constructed on Treaty One land in a floodway zone of the Red River in Winnipeg. Situated on an existing knoll in a mature forest at Crescent Drive Park, it is a first civic structure of its kind to apply protective FEMA flood design standards in the city. Forest Pavilion […]

Where there are no hills, you build them. This is not a half pipe, not a ski jump, and it is not a luge course. This is ‘Manitobogganing’: a toboggan slide in the woods with two super-fast icy chutes at the bottom. In a northern city with long winters, short days, and little topography, the […]

To make the most of short winter days and to fight the fierceness of cold, Winnipeggers are active when they engage with winter. Each year, at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in downtown Winnipeg, one of the world’s longest ice skating trails is constructed, a temporary river restaurant is raised, and artists […]