The modern masonry, metal and glass building provides visitors to the city with a sophisticated Welcome-to-Victoria experience.

The challenge was to design a structure which re-establishes transportation links between the past, present and anticipated future, through the use of similar materials. Dealing with the municipal review process for permits and rezoning provides an ongoing challenge.

Masonry construction acknowledges the city’s original streetcar barns, adjacent, now used as a retail outlet. Glass and metal reflect existing warehouses onsite.

A tensile fabric structure, like a tent, provides weather protection for disembarking passengers. Broad-based tapered columns support the portico, one of several fascinating architectural details. Six buses and 90 parked cars can be accommodated in the terminal.

The flying green and wedge-shaped metal roofs are a tribute to the city’s environmental concerns. A lantern-roof skylight brings daylight into the middle of the building, later to be developed for retail.

The client is GY Construction working on behalf of the Pacific Coast Line Bus Company.