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How Series 02 Found Its Form: Designing an Outdoor Kitchen That Belongs
At Green Theory, we’ve always approached outdoor space as an extension of human experience, not just a backdrop. Our design collaborations start with the question: how can the built environment support connection, comfort, and calm?
Gastown: From Pilot to Possibility
Beneath Gastown’s heritage charm, a transformation is underway. The City’s Public Spaces Plan envisions streets that invite walking, gathering, and everyday connection. It’s about creating a place where history and community meet in the open air.
Leave Your Mark with Green Theory at ASLA
This year at the ASLA Expo in New Orleans, we’re celebrating the incredible impact of landscape architects with our theme: Leave Your Mark.
Is This Working? — Strathcona, Vancouver
Where does work end and life begin? How do we measure value, and what slips through unseen? Is This Working? is a week-long, independent group exhibition and public activation in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood. Set inside a renovated, architecturally compelling warehouse, the project brings together community, creativity, and cultural relevance.
Designing for Trust: Why Public Spaces Should Invite, Not Exclude
In every city, the design of public space sends a message. Some spaces feel open and welcoming, inviting you to linger, play, or explore. Others send the opposite signal: using form and material to control how they’re used, or to discourage certain activities entirely.
The Modular Mindset: How We Design for Choice
Walk through any city today and you’ll see a clear pattern: the most successful public spaces aren’t fixed, they’re fluid. A plaza that hosts a market in the morning becomes a dining area by night. A rooftop might be used for quiet co-working during the day and movie screenings after dark. The common thread is adaptability. And modular design is what makes it possible.
Designing for Pause: The Psychology of Public Seating
Designers know: a seat is never just a seat. Thoughtful seating does more than provide rest: it shapes how people move, interact, and feel in a space. Seating isn’t just furniture. It’s a spatial language. One that communicates comfort, invitation, and intent.
Green Theory opens flagship showroom for Outerspace
Press release - Outerspace, our new outdoor kitchen brand, has officially opened its flagship showroom in Vancouver’s Armoury District. Founded and built in British Columbia, the launch marks the public debut of the brand and its mission: to bring elevated, modular outdoor kitchens and furnishings into backyards, patios, and contemporary architectural spaces, crafted to elevate the way we live outside.
Urban Rooftops as the New Green Commons
Imagine stepping onto a rooftop and finding a lush, green space buzzing with pollinators, fresh produce growing in raised beds, and a shaded seating area for people to gather and connect. Across the world, cities are embracing rooftop greenery not as an afterthought, but as a core part of urban planning.