LIGHTWORKS (2018)

OWNER/DEVELOPER

PC Urban Properties Corp.

PC Urban 22 E 5th Ave Holdings Ltd

ARCHITECT

Christopher Bozyk Architects Ltd.

STATEMENT OF WORK

Pre-construction, value engineering, sustainable strategic planning and construction

Lightworks is an 80,000-square-foot, six-storey office building with an Art Deco façade that wraps around the front corner of the site. It has four-storey office space with open floor plans, 7,200 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, a two-level parkade and rooftop terrace. The building was designed to the energy efficient standards of ASHRAE 90.1 2010.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, 22 East Fifth Avenue was home to the Cemco Electric Manufacturing Company, makers of high-tech electrical components used in the Allied war effort in WWII. Since that time, the building housed a variety of industrial and commercial tenants as it slowly decayed. The site was burdened with the chemical remnants of decades of electronics manufacturing, which was costly to remediate.

The original 1942 structure was designed by H.H. Simmonds, architect of Vancouver’s iconic Vogue and Stanley Theatres. PC Urban re-imagined Lightworks as a larger, modern commercial building, integrated with a restored historic façade connecting the past and the future of Mount Pleasant.