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Architect AIBC, FRAIC, LEED AP
Principal
BRIAN@PUBLICARCHITECTURE.CAA thought leader and natural collaborator, Brian has worked in the architectural field for more than thirty years and holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of British Columbia. His design work is widely recognized and has received six AIBC awards and three awards from SCUP/AIA. Brian has presented his work at several national conferences and his writings have appeared in Design Quarterly, Academic Matters Journal, and SAB Magazine. He has a track record for achieving consensus with diverse and complex educational, First Nation and other government clients. Brian is a former member of the City of Vancouver Urban Design Panel, a past Chair of UBC Advisory Urban Design Panel, and a former adjunct professor at the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
Brian Wakelin's Selected Work:
Civic | CapU Fulmer Family Centre for Childhood Studies
Nature, children, and future educators reimagine early-childhood education together in a mass-timber centre. testingss
Civic | Wesbrook Community Centre
Where recreation and the arts share the same roof, built on a foundation of genuine community input.
Housing | Vienna House
A multi-family pilot for more affordable, resilient, climate-ready housing.
Education | Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
A phased, strategic renovation for education, exhibition, and preservation.
Housing | UBC c̓əsnaʔəm leləm̓ Residences
A 350-bed residence built to echo the forest it sits beside.
Education | UBC VPRI Office
Erickson's structure lends order and weight to UBC's research offices.
Education | UBC Rugby Centre
A sunlit design that puts the field, and the action in it, front and centre.
Housing | UBC Okanagan Skeena Residence
Housing 220 students in Canada’s first Passive House residence.
Education | UBC Centre for Comparative Medicine
A state-of-the-art unification of public and private programmatic areas.
Education | UBC Buchanan Courtyard Renewal
Two courtyards reimagined as stages for both quiet and social life.
Education | UBC Bicycle Parking Facility
70 stalls of secure, sustainable parking for UBC's Engineering precinct.
Education | UBC Beaty Biodiversity Centre Addition
Expanding the world behind one of Canada’s most important collections of life.
Housing | Stacked Townhouse Study
A study shaping the ground rules for the future of Norquay's housing.
Civic | Sechelt Water Resource Centre
A wastewater treatment plant where plants do the cleaning in plain view.
Civic | Seasong Child Care
A building designed for how toddlers actually move through their day.
Civic | School District 62 (Sooke) Child Care
New child care space, sharing ground with Hans Helgesen Elementary.
Housing | SFU Student Residences Phase 3
A new LEED Gold home for 425 upper-year students
Education | SFU GCA Lobby
Sharpening the entry point for one of the university's most public-facing spaces.
Cultural | Ron Thom & The Allied Arts
Five cities, one architect's legacy profiled with Adele Weder.
Civic | Phibbs Transit Exchange
One of four significant transit hubs that serves the North Shore.
Housing | Old Lillooet Road
Affordable housing buildings, angled and offset to create a protected central courtyard.
Civic | Newton Field House
Soccer's iconic geometry, reimagined as architecture for Surrey's soccer park.
Civic | New Westminster Museum and Archives
An exhibition design that turns a timeline into a walk-through picture book.
Housing | Métis Nation British Columbia Residences and Child Care Saanich
Affordable housing meets child care, designed with Solo Architecture.
Housing | Métis Nation British Columbia Residences Campbell River
Affordable housing for Campbell River, in collaboration with Solo Architecture.
Civic | Métis Nation British Columbia Child Care Fort St. John
A culturally grounded space where Métis children learn and belong.
Education | KPU Wilson School of Design
A creative hub designed to grow with its environment and future generations.
Education | KPU / MNBC Child Care
A 61-space child care built through collaboration with the Métis Nation of BC.
Civic | Hummingbird Child Care
A sanctuary where windows are at child height and the city fades away behind a grove of oaks.
Civic | Hastings Park Wayfinding
Connecting people to place through modest and direct design interventions.
Interiors | Fortune-500 Technology Offices
Doubling desk count without losing the human scale, or the view.
Housing | East 3rd House
A duplex reclaiming light, air, and garden for the new norm of shared housing.
Interiors | Depot Café
An industrial space that invites the public into every stage of coffee-making.
Civic | Centennial Beach Park Pavilion
Built to protect the wetland it welcomes people into.
Civic | Amphitrite House Interpretive Centre
A reimagining from a lightkeeper’s residence to storm watching post.
Education | Adler University Vancouver
A campus where architecture, wayfinding, and branding all work together.
Housing | 603 Main Affordable Housing
An affordable housing anchor for Penticton's core.