Healthy communities need parks. And healthy parks need people. These third spaces offer naturalistic respite from work or school and safe places for families to play and learn outside of their homes. UBC Properties Trust takes great pride in building and maintaining all of our parks. For years, Wesbrook Place has been home to hundreds…
This 14-storey, pet-friendly concrete residence exclusively for students, faculty, and staff of UBC also boasts a large amenity room that opens to a patio with BBQs and fire pits for the exclusive use of residents.
Oakwood is home to 20 townhouses that are within walking distance from South Campus Greenway, which connects to the UBC Farm, Wesbrook Village, and the main UBC campus. Each townhouse offers spacious living with an expansive 4 bedroom floor plan. Built for privacy, the townhomes come with their own private entrance and personal outdoor patio…
The building design deviates from the traditional horseshoe shape, introducing variety to Birney Avenue. It is conceptualized as two buildings connected with an upper-level penthouse bridge. The breezeway into a courtyard below is connected to Scholar’s Greenway and Mundell Park, prioritizing pedestrian connectivity to neighbourhood features. The bike storage room has direct access to the…
The Skeena Residence is a 220-bed student residence constructed to meet this need, and UBC Properties Trust was the project manager. Each unit has two single bedrooms that share a bathroom along with house lounges, informal study space, activity room and laundry facilities. There are also two cityhomes included for visiting faculty and staff.
This 6-storey building with 90 apartments consists of studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. These are available exclusively to students, faculty, and staff at UBC.
The transit exchange was originally planned to be a standalone project, but due to cost and neighbourhood impacts, we worked with UBC and Translink to bring forward a solution which combined student residence with transit exchange. The project would make full use of the space with the residence built on top of the exchange, as…
It includes a 400-seat classroom, more than 350 new study and collaborative areas, a graduate student commons and a café. It also contains a digital technology centre, the Visualization and Emerging Media Studio, equipped with state-of-the-art immersive media technologies including Canada’s highest-resolution 3D VR-ready video wall. The Sawchuk Family Theatre includes a 25-30 person capacity…
Pine House is tucked behind Dahlia and Magnolia, and shares a courtyard with both those two buildings along with Cypress House. The building is characterized by a modern interpretation of historic architectural modes, including a tripartite sectioning of the facade, bright open windows across the building, and tasteful brick elements along the garden suites that…
This collection of 1- to 4-bedroom homes shares a courtyard with Dahlia, Magnolia, and its sister building, Pine House. Garden homes enhance the existing streetscape of the neighbourhood, with brick facades and open engagement with the outdoors. The adjacent Webber Lane greenway makes navigating Wesbrook Place a breeze. Inside, Cypress House boasts contemporary interiors, and…