The goal is to provide a link between Little Italy and Chinatown on 107th A Avenue between 97th Street and 95th Street. The renderings portray a vision for the future of Marco Polo Way as a dynamic people friendly mixed use development of commercial, residential and public spaces.

It would establish a new brand for the community as a vibrant, accessable, sustainable development.

This project required rezoning the .09 hectares site in the inner city. It was clear that we were maximizing site use and had to be very sensitive to access, shadow casting, visual appeal, and the neighborhood to the south. Initial sustainable design features include a green roof, rainwater collection, passive solar, minimal parking, bike parking and a bus shelter.

The neighborhood dates back to the early 20th century and in response to neighborhood concerns, we did quite intentionally reference the history through a nod to the Bahaus period and to the art of Mondrian.

The project was presented to City Council, without the support of City Planning. City council however, were very enthusiastic about the project and gave the project unanimous approval, and as one councilor said, “It is rare that we have such a fine building come before council.”

In a downtown neighborhood of older large homes and infill highrises and medium scale multifamily units, the Metrapol visually bridges between the single family and larger developments. The building replaces three large homes, so vertically the colour changes break up the elevation to respect the scale of the previous site development as does the variety of balcony forms and treatments. The vertical colour breaks are also broken up horizontally to further reduce the apparent scale of the building and to visually define the individual units in the building. The street is much busier than it was originally but the relationship of the building, the landscaping, and the individual units to the street, relates more to the pedestrian than the automobile.

Terry Frost was the Project Design Architect for Edmonton City Hall for Dub Architects. It was a collaborative exercise in all aspects of the design with Frost building dozens of study models of the building precinct, study models of building design alternatives, models of the finished design and study models of details of the finished design. In addition, frost did numerous drawings of studies of design details and finished design elements and technical details.

Grace Islet is a small rocky island situated in Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island with a 360 degree view of the harbor and a view west towards the town of Ganges.

It covers an area of approximately 0.3173 hectares, lies at the head of Ganges Harbour immediately southeast of Grace Point, a rocky headland at the southeastern corner of the town of Ganges. The islet is separated from Salt Spring Island by a channel approximately 60 meters in width. About one half of the islet is characterized by exposed bedrock - including sandstone and granite rock - while the remainder is covered by a thin layer of sod and dark organic soil that supports mainly grasses, Oregon grape, fescue and camas. Numerous Garry oak Juniper, Arbutus and Douglas-fir trees are also found on the island.

The island is very prominent in the harbor with significant boat and float plane activity all around particularly in the summer months. The building does not dominate the site and because of the logistics of working around the anthropological sites and handling excavated material, the building hugs the ground with a minimum of excavation required. The mass of the building is broken up with changes of colour, materials, and roof planes and by stepping building elements along the natural terrain. 

The structure is post and beam construction and the exterior finishes are a combination of natural highly finished materials.

Landscaping will be brought back to its natural indigenous vegetation in the disturbed areas and any non-indigenous species will be replaced. Pathways around the site will be strictly controlled to avoid disturbing ecologically sensitive areas..

The artist’s Village is a conceptual design for six vacant city lots on the east side of 94th Street between 106th and 106A Avenue.

It includes 16 units for artists housing studios, four units of artists live/work studios and four units of multi-purpose street level boutiques/studios/galleries, all facing the street or lane and the interior courtyard.

The goal is to design more people friendly walkable space allowing for all-season street experiences with main floor owner operated small shop/café/businesses, possible large scale anchor tenants and a variety of other creative elements.

The rose images would be constructed of up to 2500 stainless steel tiles painted with multi-tone paint that changes colour depending on the viewing angle and the angle of incidence of the available light. As the observer moves past the sculpture, the tiles will go through a colour shift and the appearance of the rose will change entirely. In addition, each tile will be attached in such a way that they hang freely and are able to tilt in the wind. In this way, the appearance of the rose will respond to nature and will take on ever changing appearances.