Linkages
An interconnected transportation system is an integral component of a safe and vibrant public realm. The choice between rapid transit, bus, bicycle, parking or pedestrian facilities, greenways, ports, and streetscapes empowers people to travel between work, home, and play.
Communities
Successful communities are vibrant, attractive, and sustainable. Properly designed residential developments support public transit, civic resources, and commercial enterprise. The incorporation of ecological processes can optimize livability, environmental quality, and economic activity.
Civic spaces
Public open spaces designed for people are enjoyable places that support a broad spectrum of activities and interests. Urban waterfronts, town centres, regional parks, sports fields and public markets allow for recreation, commerce, and respite.
Enterprise
The application of sustainable ecological solutions to business and industrial sites improves working conditions and minimizes environmental impacts. Industrial and corporate landscapes can efficiently, effectively, and ecologically draw on resources such as people, land, materials, and energy, to be strong community partners toward sustainable cities.
Regenerative places
True sustainability balances the needs of society, the economy, and the environment by integrating biological and engineered systems to make sustainable methods visible. We design storm water management, green roofs, living walls, natural restoration, and native plants into our projects with efficient and smart solutions.
Publications
Our critically acclaimed work has been published in Architectural Record, Azure, Award, Sitelines, Urban Land, Living Architecture Monitor, The Globe and Mail and the Vancouver SUN.
Sharp & Diamond wrote Ecological Site Development, a Regional Guide to Design, Construction and Maintenance and contributed to Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls by Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury.
