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Planning & Urban Design

Meaning accrues over time.
- Marc Treib

What makes built, open, public and private places work together seamlessly? We believe it’s the planning and common vision that comes before a single stone is laid. PWL’s site planning work with municipalities, institutions, and developers involves an integrated approach with the client and project team to ensure success.

We find that a multi-disciplinary approach that includes the ecological, historical, and cultural aspects of the landscape produces the most robust and meaningful designs. As well as providing guidelines for future development, our work has grown to include streetscapes, greenways, and way-finding signage: all parts of well-planned and thoughtfully designed communities.

Versatile Shipyards

Inspired by the legacy of the Wallace Shipyards, the rezoning plan for Versatile Shipyards paid reference to the past yet satisfied the needs for creating a sustainable, meaningful place for the future.

Coal Harbour

PWL Partnership contributed to each stage of the redevelopment of CP Rail yards and the surrounding industrial lands.

Dongli Lake

PWL played a lead role in the masterplanning of this 270 hectare mixed use community located outside of Tianjin, China.

Southeast False Creek Official Development Plan

The official development plan involved PWL working with multidisciplinary team on the 80 acre project area which includes 20 hectares (50 acres) of city owned brownfield land located on the last industrial site on False Creek in downtown Vancouver.

Porteau Cove

As Lead Consultants, PWL Partnership worked with owners Concord Pacific Group, the Squamish Nation, and a comprehensive team of consultants to create an innovative development plan for this 1200 acre master planned community on the Sea to Sky corridor north of Vancouver, BC.

Dockside Green Development Master Plan

PWL Partnership was part of a multi-disciplinary team for the winning submission of the Dockside competition, located in Victoria’s Gorge.

Whistler Lot 1/9

Lots 1 and 9 make up an important parcel of undeveloped land within Whistler Village North, identified as a potential location for the Paralympic Sledge Hockey facility for the 2010 Olympics.

Southeast False Creek Olympic Village Public Realm

Vancouver's Olympic Village was envisioned and designed as a community that would pus the boundaries of sustainability, while possessing a unique sense of place.

East Fraserlands

East Fraserlands is a planned sustainable community proposed for development on the banks of the Fraser River in South Vancouver.

Creekside Park

PWL has been working with the Vancouver Parks Board, Science World and Concord Pacific on Creekside Park and Creekside Park Extension since 1989.