Stone Road Complex

Guelph, Ontario

Our Landscape Architects worked to revitalize the outdoor environments implementing bold, sweeping, four season planting designs.

The Stone Road Complex is the Ontario Government’s flagship facility in the Guelph/Waterloo Region. Completed in 1995, it has received the BOMA Toronto “Certificate of Excellence”, “Office Building of the Year” and the “The Outstanding Building of the Year” awards on multiple occasions. While the buildings remain remarkable after 20 years, the outdoor environments were in decline and not in compliance with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requirements.

Partnered with Brian Luey Architect, our landscape architects developed concept, detailed design and construction documents for landscape plans and provided construction review services to revitalize the outdoor environments at this 10-hectare complex. Our ISA certified arborists completed a detailed tree and shrub inventory and assessment to define landscape areas requiring improvements and critical pruning for safety.

The design is defined by a bold, sweeping, four season planting design and a coordinated site furniture strategy that maintained the intent of the original design with a contemporary approach. Accessibility requirements were met through reorganized parking, circulation and use of tactile warning surface indicators. Our work also included the conversion of a decorative pond into an LID infiltration facility to direct all roof stormwater to a dry pond with a coarse sand bed and permeable subsoils.