St. Maria Goretti School
Location: Scarborough, Ontario
Client: Toronto Catholic District School Board
Year: 1999
Floor Area: 6,870m²
Cost: $7.6 million
Awards: Limited Design Competition, 1st Prize

Completed for the Toronto Catholic School Board, St. Maria Goretti is a replacement school accommodating 900 elementary students. The building was designed to fit a very constrained site and to permit the existing school to remain in operation during construction. The school features a double sized gym with a stage and support facilities designed to function independently for community use off hours. A centrally located wood paneled double height room with an octagonal plan named the "Ark" is the symbolic heart of the school and Catholic community.

Portage Trail Schools
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Client: Toronto District School Board
Year: 1999
Floor Area: 12,380m²
Cost: $11.7 million
Awards: Limited Design Competition, 1st Prize

A combined junior and middle elementary school designed for a student population of 950, this building is located in a reclaimed quarry with revegetated embankments surrounding three sides. The school contains shared facilities such as a general purpose room, a single and double gymnasium, a library and cafeteria. These are oriented to the front of the site making them easily accessible for community use. Landscaping is designed to enhance the existing plant species and a new "wetland zone" was created for recreational and education uses.

Prince Arthur Mews
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Client: Castlepoint Realty Partners Limited.
Year: 2005
Floor Area: 1,200m²
Cost: $3 million

The project consists of five-luxury row house units located in one of Toronto's most prestigious residential neighbourhoods. The scheme retains and incorporates the historic house on the property, a desirable feature for the neighbourhood. The new units enjoy private courtyard and landscaped terraces and take advantage of the open space on the adjacent lot to the east. Parking is provided below grade, accessible from the street.

Burlington Waterfront Centre
Location: Burlington, Ontario
Client: City of Burlington
Year: 2003
Floor Area: 1,200m²
Cost: $5.5 million

The scheme is comprised of a waterfront revitalization project for the city's waterfront park. A public pavilion building anchors a large section of the park which would be used as water court/skating rink seasonally using topography to create a sun trap protected from northwest wind. Promenades and viewing platforms are organized by a geometrical system which both provides access to the water edge and traverses the extended natural embankment.

Snake Island Cottage
Location: Lake Simcoe, Ontario
Client: Private
Year: 2003

The cottage is situated on a small cliff site on Snake Island, Lake Simcoe. It has become a design prototype for the Lakewood Beach Cottages on Lake Erie. It is comprised of extremely economical wood frame construction supported on concrete columns and is clad with marine plywood and 1 x 2 wood battens. Oversized doors oriented to lake views, connect the interior of the house to an extended deck overhanging the cliff face. Vegetation provides lateral privacy from adjacent cottages.

Ecole Secondaire
Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario
Client: Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest (CSDCSO)
Year: 2008
Floor Area: 6,038m²
Cost: $10mil

The Ecole Secondaire is a regional french high school located in Richmond Hill. It assumes the site of the historic Richmond Hill high school with its 1923 gothic collegiate building.

The historic building was previously surrounded by a 1970's building which blocked views of its primary aspect, its south facing facade.

The scheme proposes a new south court revealing the facade, with new flanking construction forming the forecourt. New construction including the gymnasium and academic wing adopt the true north orientation of north/south property lines creating a geometrical tension between the new and the old. The building is organized by a cardo decumanus. The north-south axis is a processional space through the centre of the school, fixing the historical building as the centre of the composition.

Fredericton Medical Centre
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick
Client: Fredericton Medical Group Inc.
Year: 1986
Floor Area: 8,600m²
Awards: Canadian Architect Publication

One of several buildings designed for groups of medical practitioners. The project includes medical suites, x-ray, laboratory testing facilities, physiotherapy facilities, pharmacy and retail facilities. A doctor's club suite is situated at the top of the building as a pavilion. The building though privately owned and financed, functions as a public building with a mixed-use character.

North York Civic Pool
Location: North York, Ontario
Client: City of North York
Year: 1986
Cost: $5.2 million
Awards: I.A.K.S. (Germany) Silver Medal; Ontario Association of Architects Award of Excellence

In 1986 the firm completed the new prototype recreational aquatic centre, which combines training, leisure and therapeutic functions. The facility includes: a composite pool comprised of a 50 metre 6 lane lap pool with a movable partition, a children's wading and play area, therapeutic pool, stadium seating and lounge overlooking the lap pool, indoor garden, and a south facing sun deck.

Yolles Building
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Client: Yolles and Partners Structural Engineers
Year: 1998
Floor Area: 4,800m²

A small office building was designed to accommodate the acclaimed engineering firm on its Queen Street East site. In addition to office accommodations for the firm, ground floor retail was introduced. The building's masonry construction, though contemporary character, was intended to consolidate an older Toronto block.

Lakewood Beach
Location: Wainfleet, Ontario
Client: Lakewood Beach Corporation
Year: 2006 - 2008
Floor Area: 10,000m²

The 50 acre site is situated on Lake Erie facing south to the United States. It has a 1/2 mile sand beach backed by an irregular shaped property of little apparent advantage in depth. The scheme proposes a series of cottages separated by evergreen hedges all with direct lake views. To capitalize on the site's depth two semi-circular clusters are proposed in a second tier, focused on opening in the beach front lots. These "ocular" lots have an unencumbered direct view of the lake as a direct result of the geometry of the plan. A special Fowler's Toad habitat is reserved on part of the land for an endangered species currently occupying a portion of the land.