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CLASSIC REIMAGINED

In the historic Shaughnessy neighbourhood in Vancouver, landscape architects Paul Sangha Creative collaborated with Measured Architecture to renovate this 4,500 square foot grand 1910 Edwardian-era Foursquare house, with the goal of using contemporary interventions to draw the building into the present.

The clients – a family of four, including the CEO of a notable fashion brand, her husband, and their two young boys – wanted to balance the heritage preservation of the historical property with an outdoor lifestyle, and modern comforts and aesthetics.

“As this project was a renovation to a significant heritage four-square floor plan composition, we

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