Revery Architecture

We design quality experiences. Whether a building, an interior or an urban landscape, our design process navigates the complexities and challenges inherent to each commission, bringing out the beauty and dormant opportunities latent in each project’s site, program and users. The firm has earned a global reputation for buildings for the arts, ranging from UBC’s Chan Centre and Washington’s Arena Stage, to the new Allard Hall in Edmonton and Kowloon’s spectacular Xiqu Centre, a gracious presence on the waterfront and the leading theatre for Cantonese opera. The office has been catalytic in the transformation of Surrey - from Surrey Central City’s unprecedented hybrid of retail, office and university, to the dramatic Centre City Library and light-filled Guildford Aquatic Centre. With the Tarrant County College in Fort Worth and the new University of Chicago Centre in Hong Kong, the design team found ways for academic buildings to reconcile with difficult sloping sites, yielding vistas and natural light for students and faculty. With the death of the founder of Bing Thom Architects in 2016, leadership has continued with Venelin Kokalov as Design Principal and Shinobu Homma as Technical Principal overseeing a core of 50 diversely talented staff hailing from a dozen different countries, bringing multi-disciplinary expertise as well as profound facility in architecture and planning. The firm combines a deep understanding of engineering, sustainability, project management, and construction with ongoing research on building technology, urban design, material innovation, and user needs, a width and depth of knowledge that results in unique design solutions. The firm calculated their baseline emissions inventory for their 2009 fiscal year. They are working to reduce their annual emissions through use of a green commuting incentive program, a green I.T. policy, paper conservation, office energy upgrades and composting organic waste.