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Blaxland Riverside Park benefits from a series of sweeping views that capture forest, field, and sky. The park design features big earthworks, a tree...
Blaxland Riverside Park
This public precinct project by ASPECT Studios is very large in scale, at 15,000 square meters. Included in the precinct is a new urban play space,...
Darling Quarter
Garden City Play Environment is a flowing space that promotes social interaction and healthy challenges for kids. Organic elements such as cedar logs,...
Garden City Play Environment
This playground was designed and built on a tight budget but makes no sacrifices in creativity and fun play elements. All of the wood elements are...
Grimston Park Playground
PWL was retained by the City of Vancouver to design and implement the central community park in Southeast False Creek, known as Hinge Park. The design...
Hinge Park
Using the three existing landscape types in the park, plancontext created three “parks within a park.” These are: the Lake Park, the Forest Park,...
Loops
Originally developed as a park following heavy bombing in World War II, Normand Park was revamped and opened to the public in 2008. It functions as a...
Normand Park