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Parks & Plazas

Perhaps a garden is best considered as a precise point of connection between a human and the earth. 

-Robert Thayer

From the civic plaza animated with public events, to the neighbourhood park where friends meet and children play, parks help make our communities loved and livable. PWL has decades of park design experience, notably our work on waterfront parks. Our two decades of involvement with Vancouver’s Coal Harbour waterfront makes clear our commitment to understanding local and regional character, creating fun and evolving spaces, and supporting community activities.

David Lam Park Extension

David Lam Park is located in the Concord Pacific Beach Neighbourhood and provides one of the area's major public open spaces.

Sapperton Landing Park

Sapperton Landing is a 6.5-acre naturalized open space along the banks of the Fraser River in New Westminster.

Weiser Community Park

As part of the Weiser Lock Company factory site redevelopment, PWL developed the overall open space master plan for the Weiser Community, including a series of open space corridors to link greenspaces, parks and the Weiser community to the surrounding neighbourhoods.

Harbour Green Park

Harbour Green is a 6.5 acre park that presents both the natural and man-made history of the city of Vancouver.

Bental V

This public plaza is part of a commercial high-rise development that includes the roof garden on 5th floor of the YWCA, providing much needed public space in the centre of the City, and allowing for the free flow of people through the site.

George Wainborn Park

This prominent waterfront park honours the ideals and accomplishments of a long time Park Board Commissioner; and provides a prime example of how polluted industrial sites can be transformed into important new public spaces

Town+Gown Plaza at Simon Fraser University

Town & Gown Square has been instrumental in establishing the identity of the public realm framework and creating a distinct sense of place for SFU's UniverCity neighbourhood commercial area.

Phyllis Bental Garden at Van Dusen

The Phyllis Bentall Garden represents the first phase of a major renovation to VanDusen Botanical Garden, expected to be completed over the next several years.

Stanley Park Prospect Point

After a catastrophic windstorm in December, 2006 toppled or damaged nearly every tree at Prospect Point, the design team created a newly organized circulation design for this scenic and heavily visited location in Stanley Park.

CBC Plaza

The major public focus of the redevelopment of the CBC Plaza is to provide an open relationship with Hamilton Street -- with the mid–block pedestrian arcade opening onto a semi-public space to provide internal site access for residents, the CBC, and the new community uses.