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Our latest rental residential tower in the Joyce-Collingwood Neighbourhood is across the street from Joyce I and the Sky Train station. Inspired by the active and dynamic Joyce Street, the design of Joyce II is influenced by the heritage of northwest modernist lightweight structural systems, balconies of steel outriggers, nautical concepts and contemporary prefabrication. The resulting tower's elegant vertical form dynamically shifts at the podium, mid-point, and top, creating dramatic tension points, addressing the contextual environment of Joyce Street, the North shore mountains and downtown Vancouver.   

The tower base features a series of retail spaces and a lobby oriented to Joyce Street. A welcoming public lobby oriented to the new public plaza and SkyTrain will lead the community into the building, while the amenity program at the top of the tower offers indoor lounge and roof deck featuring panoramic views.

5055 Joyce

Paying homage to the abundance of beautiful, bespoke ultra luxury residences that shape other global cities, The Kita in Japan represents a rare opportunity for residents to experience a way of living unlike anything else that exists in the city.

The Kita has sweeping, open living areas and an unprecedented amount of space and amenity for densely populated Tokyo. Offering only 12 spacious ultra luxury residences, a dedicated concierge and true artistry of design by internationally renowned architect, Kengo Kuma, The Kita sets a new precedent for Tokyo condominiums and offers a standard of living that will be difficult for to look back from. Intuitive, intelligent, multi-textured, multi-layered and sumptuously comfortable, it speaks to an elevated way of living. 

Both an epoch-making piece of architecture and a timeless work of art, The Kita is a building that reveals itself softly, subtly – not just through sight but all the senses. It is a place where shadows dance, light metamorphosizes surfaces, textures gently intermingle, views unfold, foliage enfolds and materials unveil themselves in slow, compelling ways. There is nothing explicit about it. Rather, it is calm and unobtrusive. Yet it has a profound sense of atmosphere. An atmosphere that envelops you, embraces you, stays with you – and is felt deep in your core.

Private viewings available upon appointment. To learn more about The Kita Tea House and more, please contact us at tokyo@westbankcorp.com or +81 (0)3-6721-0531.

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"The Avior takes its name from a binary double star – Epsilon Carinae, known as Avior, in the constellation of Carina. A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycentre, so close that from earth they can appear as one. The name is a nod to the story of two buildings and their new, unbreakable bond."

While the story behind The Avior is one of blending, layering and gentle transition, these themes relate to the experience of living there, too. Inside, each of the 11 apartments and 2 penthouses is spacious, airy and open-plan, with  high ceilings and huge windows overlooking the  trees. This allows for smooth transition between  living areas, and suggests a soothing symbiosis with the natural world. The clarity and abundance of light is invigorating, yet, at the same time, cocoon-like softness is achieved through materials and beautiful detailing. Outside, Japanese-style gardens surround the building,  with undulating, mossy hills, a scattering of smaller rock gardens, a flowing stream and an abundance of bamboo, maple and cherry blossom trees. Very Japanese in its delicacy, yet  satisfying Western proportions and living expectations in every way, The Avior is a bridge between worlds.

Designed by Studio Gang, Terraine will provide much-needed rental housing in San Jose, to complement the Arbor’s workspace,  creating a highly sustainable, live-work neighborhood. Employing a mass timber hybrid structure, the building will target net zero carbon.

The two buildings, Arbor and Terraine — separated between their residential and workspace programming — will share resources, energy, and a public realm along the level of the street. The urban intervention will activate the neighborhood and generate a lively street life. Both Terraine and Arbor are climate responsive structures, designed to be highly sustainable and to adapt to varying environmental conditions on different sides of the site.


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The Orchard residential building (409 South 2nd Street) is part of a two project campus, composed of workspace and residential. Designed to integrate and celebrate the existing mid-century Bo Town restaurant structure on the site at the corner of San Salvador and S 2nd Street, the building adopts an L-shaped plan, to both maximize the efficiency of its program and highlight the heritage of the restaurant, with its iconic folded roof and populuxe, space age-inspired elements. The residential building includes approximately 540 market rental homes. 

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Designed to elevate and celebrate nature in downtown San Jose, Park Habitat is composed of workspace, retail and a museum, interwoven with vegetation and a verdant landscape. Bordered by the Convention Center, the Tech Interactive, San Jose Civic Center and Plaza de Cesar Chavez, the project blends deep sustainability, natural elements and an expansive public realm, to form a connection point and an anchor for a cultural district in the city.

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The Energy Hub is designed to complement the adjacent Bank of Italy building also by BIG, while creating a mix of retail, rental residential and workspace with expansive floorplates. Connecting two alleys on either side of the site, an arch cuts through the project creating an expanded public realm and urban room that will activate the entire surrounding neighborhood. The Energy Hub’s name comes from the two kinds of energy it creates: the photovoltaic panels on the louvers and the roof harness energy from the sun and the public realm generates human energy, from the connections and interactions it helps foster. 

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Arbor is comprised of two buildings: a mass timber structure and the adaptive reuse of the existing Davidson Building, providing over 500,000 sf of workspace and dramatically reducing the carbon emissions and embodied carbon of  
the project.

Designed to maximize connections to nature and the outdoors, through a mix of indoor, outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces, Arbor takes its name from the structure it is conceived as — a framework that is light on the earth yet provides robust support for a diverse ecosystem of healthy, inspiring habitats for  creative work. 