Architects are redefining how we experience nature by integrating trees into homes and public spaces through biophilic design, which combines sustainability, wellness, and harmony with the environment ...

Grandview will have a curved outlook to the preserved tree, which informed the considered design of the project. “Our initial response was, ‘How do we integrate with this tree?’” says Brooks.

Their firm, Grout McTavish Architects, also designed the Robson Square ice rink plaza. Reporter Tara Carman spoke with McTavish about what it takes to build a rainforest in the middle of the desert.

The project comes from Terreform One, a nonprofit art, architecture, and urban design research group led by architect Mitchell Joachim. The idea behind this project has had a tree-like maturation ...

Completing the whole design are various public furniture elements, such as bicycle racks, boulders, bird and insect houses, a community table, and a playground with wood-carved animal-shaped rockers.

To answer this question, the project aims to critically investigate predominant sustainability practices and develop research, design proposals and art objects in response. The laboratory brings ...