Elk Falls Cemetery
The development of the expansion of Elk Falls Cemetery has reached an exciting point! The LEES+Associates cemetery design team was recently in Campbell River, BC to review the clearing and top soil grading at the Cemetery.
Category: Planning+Design
Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Opening
Our team had a great visit to the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden to check out the first phase of improvements at the garden.
In 2016, LEES+Associates was retained by the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society to create a master plan and detailed plans for the Phase 1 improvements.
Ocean View Cemetery, Astoria, OR
On March 16th, 2020, the City Council of Astoria, Oregon unanimously approved the Ocean View Cemetery Master Plan. This comprehensive Plan was prepared by the Vancouver office of LEES+Associates with support from the Portland office of David Evans Associates Ltd and was intended to help foster sustainable operation and development of Astoria’s remarkable,
Accessibility and Universal Design
LEES+Associates is excited to be expanding our knowledge and skillset in the realm of accessibility and universal design in the outdoor environment. One of our staff, Ivy Smith has recently become an RHFAC (Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™) Professional and is one of the first members in Canada to achieve this designation.
Her training with the Rick Hansen Foundation has given her an expanded perspective of the built environment.
Path to Becoming a Landscape Architect | Josh Bernsen
Congratulations to our colleague Josh Bernsen who has recently become a member of the British Columbia Society Of Landscape Architects (BCSLA) and a registered landscape architect in BC.
Growing up in a small agricultural community in Southern California, Josh credits working on the family alfalfa and wheat farm,
Aerial Footage from Beaver Lake
What stunning aerial views of Beaver Lake!
As work on the restoration plans for Beaver Lake in Vancouver’s Stanley Park continues, the project team was out at the site performing an ecological assessment.
Stewart Denny and Ali Canning from the LEES+Associate team, along with biologist Chris Lee from AquaTerra can be seen in this drone footage wading in the bog.
Greetings from the Northwest Territories
[Snowshoeing north of 60 creates some stylish hair]
Richard Cook and Alix MacKay from our team has just returned from travels to the Northwest Territories to conduct a site visit and participate in community engagement efforts for our latest project in the North.
Greeted with temperatures of down to -51 celsius,
5 Parks & Trails to Explore on Family Day Weekend
It is Family Day in British Columbia and a few other provinces here in Canada.
As such, our office will be closed on Monday, 18th February 2018. We hope you have a relaxing long weekend with family.
We also wanted to use this opportunity to highlight a few remarkable parks, trails and open spaces we’ve had the honour of working on.
Risk Management in the Records Landscape
Following her presentation on Records Retention at the BCSLA’s annual conference, Cailin Barteltt, records manager at LEES+Associates has published an article in the current issue of Landscapes|Paysages Magazine, the flagship magazine of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.
Youth Engagement
Student brainstorming sheet
We were at Monterey Middle School this week as part of our work on the Carnarvon Park Master Plan for the District of Oak Bay. We had a chance to meet with nearly 50 Grade 7 students to get their input on the park.
After a brief presentation,