Patagonia’s Vancouver Flagship Coming Soon
Proscenium is hard at work with Patagonia on their new Vancouver store, the first in city and only the second in Canada. The West 4th flagship location in Kitsilano is targeted to open at the end of November just in time for the Christmas shopping season. This adaptive re-use project retains much of the existing building, salvaging as much material as possible for the new store.
MEC North Vancouver wins Canadian Green Building Award!
Proscenium is pleased to announce that the MEC North Vancouver store has won a Canadian Green Building Award! The project is featured in this summer's edition of SAB Magazine. MEC's innovative retail space at 212 Brooksbank Ave. in North Vancouver raises the bar for sustainable building practices for retail stores. The store is is targeting LEED® gold designation focusing on energy efficiency, water consumption, materials, landscaping
Video Tour – Private Residence, Vancouver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83lAWu_-gyw Take a video tour of the interior renovation of this Shaughnessy home. Proscenium created an open-concept design suitable for casual living and entertainment while maximizing storage space.
Guest Blogger: Jeff Bohnen, MEC
We are so excited to have Jeff Bohnen, Office Services Manager at MEC back as a guest blogger. Please read on for some insight into the process of bringing the new MEC head office to life. After years of continued expansion, MEC has simply outgrown our existing Head Office space. Creative solutions to increase our capacity – increasing density by removing separation panels to create open,
Office Field Trip
It was a rainy Friday when the office trekked out to see our latest completed project; 17,000 square feet of office space for Austeville Properties in Vancouver. As the Final touches were being completed we had the opportunity to tour the space, appreciate the workmanship and a job well done.
Spring Closet Clean Out
Earlier in the year, Proscenium invited local Designers to do a spring clean out of their closets and participate in a charity endeavour to benefit the WISH Drop-in Centre. We had an astounding response and 3 fully space planned car loads were taken down and delivered. 2013 was our 3rd year of the Spring Closet Clean Out Event, we hope to have many more. Keep an
MEC North Vancouver Store Receives Award
In March of the MEC North Vancouver store received a North Vancouver Urban Design Award. The key criteria under consideration for the award included the project’s response to its context at several scales: immediate, regional and global. At the local scale it was concerned with the work’s contribution and sensitivity to its immediate surroundings and the public realm. Regionally, the focus was on MEC North
