Acton Ostry

Acton Ostry Architects designs experiential buildings rooted in a considered, modernist idiom.

[PCL Construction @PCLConstruction]

Limberlost Place has gained international recognition as @ENRnews’ Global Best Project of the Year! 🏆

This net-zero mass timber facility showcases bold design, sustainable innovation & teamwork. Congrats to @GBCollege, @MoriyamaTeshima, @ActonOstry, @FastEpp and all partners!

[Canadian Architect @CdnArch]

Vancouver Aquatic Centre by MJMA Architecture & Design + Acton Ostry Architects won a 2025 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence. Find out more:
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[Pacific Autism Family Network @pacificautism]

We have our Overall Winner! 🎉

A huge congratulations to @actonostry, whose stunning work on the UBC Museum of Anthropology takes the cake. Incredible job, team!

Our runner-up award goes to @PCIDevelopments and MCM Architects for their project, The Stories at South Granville Station.

With the judges’ selections now revealed, only one category remains… People’s Choice. Stay tuned! 👀

[Moriyama Teshima Architects @moriyamateshima]

Limberlost Place, our #masstimber project at @GBCollege’s designed w @actonostry, has been featured by the @globeandmail!
The project represents a new standard for architecture that incorporates stunning design and innovation. #mtarch
https://t.co/jtIzFwtDcT

[Moriyama Teshima Architects @moriyamateshima]

Limberlost Place has earned a Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (@CTBUH ) 2024 Award of Excellence in the Innovation category! 🏆https://t.co/FxyRQVkboa
#masstimber #sustainabledesign #architecture @actonostry @GBCollege

[Vifloor @VifloorCanada]

.@actonostry recently finished work on a four-year project to bring the MacPherson and Teetzel Company #Building structure (built in 1908) in #Vancouver’s Yaletown district up to date. – via @DCN_Canada
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[Architizer @Architizer]

Completed in 2019, the 5,960 square metre renewal refurbished a 1960s modernist building originally designed by Thompson Berwick and Pratt Architects on the University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus.
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Discover here: https://t.co/XI978LBtVn | @actonostry

[Moriyama Teshima Architects @moriyamateshima]

Check out these photos of the Limberlost Place construction site at @GBCollege taken on Jan 30th. Since then, timber structure is up to L6, steel framing for the internal feature stair is in place, and both the east + west solar chimneys are beginning to take shape! #mtarch

[Myke Badry @BadryMyke]

What a year it’s been at George Brown College’s Limberlost Place! We've met incredible milestones on this revolutionary project working with @GBCollege, @moriyamateshima and @actonostry. Excited to see it progress! @PCLConstruction

https://t.co/U3hxRa2BJG

[Acton Ostry @actonostry]

They grow up so fast 🥲

[Myke Badry @BadryMyke]

What a year it’s been at George Brown College’s Limberlost Place! We've met incredible milestones on this revolutionary project working with @GBCollege, @moriyamateshima and @actonostry. Excited to see it progress! @PCLConstruction

https://t.co/U3hxRa2BJG

[Moriyama Teshima Architects @moriyamateshima]

Limberlost Place has been under #construction at @GBCollege's waterfront campus for over a year, progressing at an impressive rate! Thank you to Salina Kassam for creating this montage of her photos of this highly sustainable, mass timber project. #mtarch
https://t.co/a7g1zvYWz6

[Acton Ostry @actonostry]

Exciting news for the JCC project!

[Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver @JewishVancouver]

Amazing news! We are very pleased to announce that the @JCCVancouver has received $25 million in support from the Government of Canada for the JCC site redevelopment! @BCGovNews @CdnHeritage @NewsroomGC

Read more about the announcement here: https://t.co/tAELLSwX75

[George Brown Polytechnic @GBPolytech]

Here’s a sneak peek inside #LimberlostPlace, the newest addition to the @GBcollege #Waterfront Campus. Designed by @moriyamateshima &
@actonostry Architects, this first 10-storey mass-timber, & low-carbon institutional building will open its doors to students in January 2025

[Moriyama Teshima Architects @moriyamateshima]

We are thrilled to announce that Limberlost Place, our joint project with @ActonOstry, is the recipient of the Excellence in Design Innovation Award presented by @WaterfrontTO!
#moriyamateshima #actonostry #waterfronttoronto #limberlostplace @GBCollege

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[Construction Canada @ConstructCanMag]

George Brown’s previously awarded mass timber building shortlisted for a new honour @GBCollege @moriyamateshima https://t.co/MEs9NCYHYF #actonostryarchitectsinc #building #georgebrowncollege #honour #limberlostplace #masstimber #moriyamateshimaarchitects #sustainable

[PCL Construction @PCLConstruction]

#ProjectMilestone

@GBCollege’s Limberlost Place is ready to timber up! 👍

With the last of the prefabricated slab bands prepped at our offsite facility and the final concrete pour for the Level 1 slab complete, the installation on site is officially underway. 🎉

#WeArePCL

[Acton Ostry @actonostry]

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[Moriyama Teshima Architects @moriyamateshima]

Check out these most recent photographs taken of the construction site of Limberlost Place at @GBCollege’s Waterfront campus! The final concrete pour for the Level 1 suspended slab helps top-off the below grade work + makes way for the first glulam #timber columns to be erected.

[Canadian Architect @CdnArch]

The Digital Edition of Canadian Architect magazine’s September 2022 issue: https://t.co/lh4sJ5vQJi including work from @diamondschmitt @numberTENarch @actonostry @ArchLisalandrum and more!

#architecture #architects #interiordesign #buildingdesign #construction #engineering

[George Brown Polytechnic @GBPolytech]

Have you heard? @GBCollege is transforming #Toronto’s skyline with the construction of #LimberlostPlace, a 10-storey mass-timber building at Waterfront Campus! Watch this newly released video overview and discover what makes this project so special.