Format

Format is a mixed-use residential tower located at 3996 Dumfries Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, developed and built by Cressey Development as both owner and general contractor and designed by RH Architects. The building delivers residential homes above a fully glazed ground floor that combines the main residential lobby with multiple commercial retail units fronting onto the surrounding streets giving the podium a continuous, animated street presence.

Vision West supplied and installed 9,800 square feet of glazing and architectural metal at the building’s ground floor and interior common areas. The exterior scope included the curtainwall framing the residential lobby entries and the commercial retail unit storefronts, with two-storey glazing assemblies at the main lobby and entry feature locations. Glass canopies were installed at the building’s principal entries, with Vision West glazing onto a decorative steel framework supplied and installed by others — a diamond-patterned lattice canopy that defines the entry character and required precise coordination at the steel-to-glass interface. On the interior, Vision West installed curtainwall vestibules at the lobby, glass and aluminum doors throughout the common areas, interior glass handrails, and aluminum office partitions, extending the architectural glazing language from the street through the building’s shared spaces.

The completed scope at Format demonstrates Vision West’s ability to deliver a fully integrated package of exterior and interior architectural glazing on a single project, where the same level of finish and detail carries from the street-facing storefronts into the lobby vestibules, the partitions, and the stair handrails — the kind of multi-scope coordination that makes a building’s ground floor read as a single architectural composition.”