Located in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, the red-bricked St. Augustine School and Child Care provides a symbolic link to the nearby St. Augustine Church and Parish by means of a playful masonry collage composed of three shades of brick arranged in varying patterns. Buff-brick cruciforms modestly mark the school as a Catholic institution in the surrounding neighbourhood. Slender cruciform columns support folded steel canopies outside the main entrances. Mother Mary is represented by blue coloured glass and south-facing vivid green snaking-stairways the children stomp upon as they rush outside to play.
St. Augustine School & Child Care
Vancouver, BC
St. Augustine's Parish, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver
2015
4,200 sqm

buff-brick cruciform
Sustainability
LEED Gold equivalent
awards & recognition
2015
Masonry Institute of British Columbia Award

entry approach
The outside brick work is colourful, unique, and tells two big messages: we are a Catholic school, as depicted by two crosses embedded in the outside walls, and we are very playful! We are delighted that our new school is being so well received.
St. Augustine School

brick collage

school entrance

feature stair

feature stair light shaft

feature stair

feature stair skylight
Sustainability
LEED Gold equivalent
awards & recognition
2015
Masonry Institute of British Columbia Award

kindergarten

learning commons

learning commons

serpent stair

school outdoor play

child care

child care outdoor play

child care outdoor play
The interior is simply beautiful — seeing the attention to detail, creative use of space, abundant light and use of coloured glass really fills us with gratitude — our most frequently used expression!
St. Augustine School