Hand-drawn landscape architecture sketch of a riparian park with boardwalks, stepped terraces, and shoreline vegetation.
Hand-drawn landscape architecture close-up sketch of a patio space with a custom harvest table and arbour.
Hand-drawn conceptual sketch showing a long undulating concourse with a vortex-like perspective effect.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, OCTAVE provides Landscape Architecture and Planning services for projects across a wide range of scopes, scales, and complexity, working with clients to create restorative places for people, plants and pollinators.

With deep gratitude OCTAVE practices on the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations who have stewarded these lands for millennia. 

CREATING RESTORATIVE PLACES FOR PEOPLE + PLANTS + POLLINATORS

Photograph of a West Coast planted garden with sword ferns, vine maple leaves, and kinnikinnick groundcover.
Photograph of a red-sand coastline extending toward the horizon under a cloudy sky.
Close-up photograph of western sword ferns in soft light.
Close-up photograph of dense variegated Carex sedge foliage.
Close-up photograph of a honey bee foraging on white oregano flowers in a pollinator-friendly garden.