NEWS: PAI named Associate Architect for new mass-timber office

May 17, 2021

Proscenium is excited to announce our involvement in T3 Mount Pleasant, a new mass-timber office building in Vancouver. Standing for “timber, transit and technology,” T3 Mount Pleasant will be a 10-storey, 196,000 sq ft office building geared towards tech and creative industry tenants.

PAI will be acting as Associate Architect to DLR Group in this project developed by the Houston-based Hines and local developer PC Urban. This will be our third mass-timber office project in the area.

Exterior of Hines’ T3 Minneapolis / Photo courtesy of Hines, credit Ema Peter

Interior of Hines’ T3 Minneapolis / Photo provided by Hines.com

DESIGN ARCHITECT FOR HERITAGE BUILDING

Proscenium will be acting as Design Architect for the heritage component, the SFU Annex building built in 1929 (a category “B” heritage building) which will be retained and revitalized as part of the new development.

Simon Fraser Annex heritage building (c. 1929), 123 East 6th Ave / Photo by Heritage Vancouver

The City of Vancouver-owned site was rezoned in 2017 to new I-1A and 1-1B (Industrial) zones in order to support and enable the intensification of digital and technology uses, increasing maximum floor space area ratio (FAR) up to 5:0 FAR with contributions to community amenities (CACs), e.g. affordable housing and heritage.

T3 Mount Pleasant is now in the Design phase with construction to start in 2022.

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