Article source: Acton Ostry Architects Inc.

The Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded St. Augustine School over one hundred years ago, at which time the school shared quarters with St. Augustine Church in a domed, three-storey, brick building located in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver. In 1951, the original school was demolished and replaced with what was to be a temporary, single-storey, wood-frame building. Sixty-four years later, a new three-storey, 300 student, 4,200 square metre, red brick-clad school and child care facility that features fifteen classrooms, a learning commons, multipurpose spaces and allowance for a new gymnasium occupies the compact site.

Image Courtesy © Michael Elkan

• Architects: Acton Ostry Architects Inc.
• Project: St. Augustine School
• Location: Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada
• Photography: Michael Elkan
• Client: The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver; St. Augustine’s Parish
• Design Team:
  
  • Principal-in-charge: Russell Acton, ARCHITECT AIBC AAA SAA OAA FRAIC
  • Project Lead: Mark Simpson ARCHITECT AIBC MRAIC Peng
• Team: Warren Schmidt ARCHITECT AIBC MRAIC, Nathaniel Straathof ARCHITECT AIBC LEED AP
• Collaborators:
  
  • Structural Engineer: Wicke Herfst Structural Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineer: Integral Group (Formerly Cobalt Group) – Mechanical
  • Electrical Engineer: MMM Group Ltd.
  • Landscape Architect: Durante Kreuk Ltd
  • Contractor: Yellowridge Construction Ltd.
• Software used: VectorWorks

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