Academy of Fine Arts

The Fondation Louis Vuitton’s modern art collections have an extraordinary new home, next to the Jardin d’Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. The futuristic glass landmark designed by Frank Gehry has 11 galleries of different sizes, a 350-seat auditorium and multilevel roof terraces for events and art installations. The building takes the form of a boat’s sails inflated by the wind.

A global technology company, wanted to create a dynamic and forward-thinking office space that would help to attract top talent. WSP was selected to provide MEP engineering, lighting design, and acoustics for its 750,000 sq. ft. headquarters in the United States. In addition, we provided workplace innovation consulting services to define the vision and goals of a smart workplace, validate smart goals against existing workplace design standards, and provide technical design solutions, as well as vendor evaluation, to achieve selected smart initiatives.

Salesforce Tower is an iconic building on the skyline of San Francisco, and the focal point of the Transbay redevelopment area. The tower is located in the SoMa (South-of-Market) district of San Francisco, above the new transit centre which is set to become a major transportation hub for West Coast USA. At a height of 1,000 ft., it is one of the tallest buildings west of the Mississippi river.

Proactive and innovative thinking led to improved energy-efficient outcomes, over and above the original client briefing requirements for CSL’s new state-of-the-art facility.

Thanks to WSP’s sustainable designs, primary school students and teachers in Wales were treated to a new and improved learning environment. Two primary schools in Carmarthenshire have been designed and built according to Passivhaus, the world’s most rigorous energy and comfort standard.

An academic mixed-use project spanning 17 acres of the old Manhattanville manufacturing zone in West Harlem. It will boast 6.8 million ft² of space for teaching, research, underground parking and support services, and create new facilities for civic, cultural, recreational and commercial activity.

WSP provided engineering services for the electrical and structural systems for the solar PV farm, which at one time was the largest in Canada and the third largest in North America.

The Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus has undergone a major expansion, including a new 150,000 ft², two-storey Biological and Computational Science Facility. This has two distinct wings with very different heating and ventilation requirements.