The Silicon Valley Business Journal has awarded the Indio building, at 435 Indio Way in Sunnyvale, CA, the best rehab project for 2014. Integral collaborated with the developer Kevin Bates of Sharp Development, Hillhouse Construction, and RMW Architecture on the award-winning space. The design team retrofit the existing 30,000-square-foot, uninsulated office building to be a net…
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The City of Vancouver Urban Design Awards took place for the first time ever on September 15, 2014 at VanDusen Botanical Garden. “Our Urban Design Award recipients are excellent examples of how innovative and imaginative design complements Vancouver’s natural beauty,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson. “Vancouver’s designers are now renowned across the globe, and their extraordinary…
CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory has been selected as a finalist of the 2014 Innovation in LEED awards program in the New Construction/Core and Shell category. The awards are put on by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) Greater Toronto Chapter. The winners will be announced at the CaGBC Greater Toronto Chapter Gala, taking place on October…
Integral Group was well represented at the recent Toronto 2015 Urban Design Awards held on September 16. The awards are presented every two years to acknowledge positive contributions to Toronto’s community life by architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, design students and city builders. 2015 was a significant year for the Toronto Urban Design awards as…
The new Canada Post Processing Centre at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is officially open. Located at 5940 Ferguson Road, the 700,000 sq. ft. center is Canada Post’s third major hub for distributing and processing international mail, with Toronto and Montreal filling the other two spots. On average, the new Vancouver facility processes over four million…
The David & Lucille Packard Foundation Headquarters in Los Altos, CA, is the winner of the 2014 Livable Building Award, which recognizes high levels of occupant happiness, comfort and productivity in the work environment. A jury selected by the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at University of California, Berkeley, grants the Livable Building Award…
Integral Group is thrilled to announce the opening of its brand new office location in Victoria, BC. With a number of large-scale projects already underway on Vancouver Island, the firm is excited to begin working in this historic and picturesque city. Some of Integral Group’s current projects in this area include Uptown Shopping Centre, 1515…
Fort York Visitor Centre in Toronto, Ontario obtained occupancy on August 28, 2014. The project pays homage to Toronto’s founding story and Canada’s military past. Situated beneath the Gardiner Expressway on a 43 acre site in downtown Toronto, the centre serves as a museum and explores the relationship between natural landscapes and the built environment.…
As anticipation rises for Vancouver House, so has the demand to live in such an iconic tower – 50% of residential units have already been sold even though construction is not slated to begin for another four months. The development, located at Beach and Howe, will help transform a lackluster neighborhood through innovation in both…
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) Headquarters was featured in the July 2014 issue of Canadian Architect. The project consists of a new stand alone four storey office building that provides a home for the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, and is recognized for its eclectic urban setting and innovation with new environmental sustainable…
Completed in 2011, the VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre has officially received LEED Platinum certification. Designed through inspiration from an orchid leaf, the highly sustainable building truly reflects nature, producing enough energy on an annual basis to meet its own requirements. The project is also pursuing the Living Building Challenge – a certification program that addresses…
The Exchange tower located at Howe and Pender Street in Vancouver, BC is on track to being a LEED Platinum high rise office tower in BC. Developed by Credit Suisse of Switzerland, the building illustrates a high level of innovation by being the first skyscraper in Canada to be encased in a triple glazed curtain…