Public Architecture

04/22/2026

This 🌎 we’re reflecting on our commitment to creating civic and cultural spaces that respect the landscapes they inhabit.

Whether utilizing innovative organics processing and greenhouse technology to transform wastewater into a resource for the LEED Gold Sechelt Water Treatment Centre💧; integrating advanced helium recycling systems for the UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute🥼; or, implementing a high-performance seismic timber structure for the LEED Gold KPU Wilson School of Design🌲, our goal remains: architecture that gives more than it takes.

Sustainable design is about creating resilient spaces where culture and nature can thrive together.

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1. Sechelt Water Resource Centre - LEED Gold
2. UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute - LEED GOLD
3. KPU Wilson School of Design - LEED Gold
4. Vienna House - Passive House Target
5. UBC Okanagan Skeena Student Residences – Passive House
6. UBC c̓əsnaʔəm leləm̓ Residences - LEED Platinum

04/22/2026

This 🌎 we’re reflecting on our commitment to creating civic and cultural spaces that respect the landscapes they inhabit.

Whether it’s utilizing innovative organics processing and greenhouse technology to transform wastewater into a resource for the LEED Gold Sechelt Water Treatment Centre💧; integrating advanced helium recycling systems for the UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute🥼; or, implementing a high-performance seismic timber structure for the LEED Gold KPU Wilson School of Design🌲, our goal remains: architecture that gives more than it takes.

Sustainable design is about creating resilient spaces where culture and nature can thrive together.

📷
1. Sechelt Water Resource Centre - LEED Gold
2. UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute - LEED GOLD
3. KPU Wilson School of Design - LEED Gold
4. Vienna House - Passive House Target
5. UBC Okanagan Skeena Student Residences – Passive House
6. UBC c̓əsnaʔəm leləm̓ Residences - LEED Platinum

03/26/2026

On March 5th, we watched from behind the scenes at Vienna House as Bright Future Studio filmed Principal Architect John Wall and BC Housing Senior Researcher Cynthia Moran for an upcoming video.

Stay tuned for the interview!

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🔈People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul (remix) by James Brown (Universal Music Group)

To learn more about this pilot project advancing innovative solutions to affordability, neighbourliness, and climate change: https://www.publicarchitecture.ca/work/vienna-house/

02/17/2026

Grab your glow sticks and go.

Host of the Fort St John’s Winter Fest Kick Off, Kin Park Pavilion will be the muster point for the Glow in the Dark Snowshoe Tour later this month.

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01/20/2026

The future of Vancouver’s schoolyards is taking shape at Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary.

Public Architecture is proud to lead the seismic upgrade and site reimagining for this pilot project. Funded by BC Parks, this initiative explores a new model for outdoor learning spaces—one that the School District and City hope to implement across the entire city.

By facilitating workshops with students and key stakeholders, PUBLIC is helping bridge the gap between education and the natural environment. Big thanks to our partners at ISL Landscape Architects and the BC Parks Foundation for a successful day of co-creation!

seismicupgrade

08/13/2025

Inside like outside

UBC Centre for Comparative Medicine

Public Architecture
Contractor – Syncra Construction
Structural Engineer – MCW ⁠
Electrical Engineer – Nemetz & Associates
Civil Engineer – Aplin and Martin
Geotechnical Engineer – Geopacific
Technology – McSquared System Design Group
Building Envelope – Spratt Emmanuel Engineering
Environmental Engineer – Pacific Environmental
Code Consultant – GHL Consultants
Landscape Architect – Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg

Photography – Martin Tessler

08/12/2025

Providing some shade (the good kind) on a hot day.

UBC Buchanan Courtyard Renewal

Design – Public Architecture and Lost and Found
Contractor – Scott Construction Group
Structural Engineer – Fast + Epp ⁠
Electrical Engineer – Acumen Engineering
⁠Landscape Architect – Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Photography – Nic Lehoux

03/10/2025

12/06/2024

Vienna House level six of seven. Topping out next month.

12/06/2024

Vienna House level 6 of 7. Topping out next month!

10/16/2024

interviews co-founder of Public Architecture, Brian Wakelin, to discuss the evolution of the firm.

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