Chief Leonard George Building

Innovative and culturally relevant, the Chief Leonard George Building is Canada’s first mixed-use tall mass timber Passive House building. The project has achieved 75% reduction in embodied and operational carbon, utilizing pre-manufactured mass timber floor and envelope panels. 

It sets the gold standard for Urban Indigenous housing and environmental stewardship providing 81 social housing units and a childcare facility. The façade is envisioned as a woven cedar basket, an artistic adaption of the celebrated Coast Salish tradition and technique, providing a striking visual reminder of the historic cultural practices of the Indigenous peoples who have called these lands home.