Our Press

Our work and studio has been honoured with awards and included in a range of publications - see the most recent features and recognition below.

Awards

  • 2025 - AFBC Design Excellence Award, Multi-Family/Mixed Use — The Granary at Southlands

  • 2025 - AFBC Equity Award — Masque Drag Ball at the RAIC Festival 2024 - with the Field Collective

  • 2025 - Wood Design and Building Award - Western Red Cedar Award — The Granary at Southlands

  • 2025 - BLT Built Design Awards - Mixed Use — The Granary at Southlands

  • 2024 - SAB Canadian Green Building Award — Heimaklettur House

  • 2023 - Architizer Awards Finalist: Pavilions — Meristem Chapel

  • 2021 - 20+ Change, Emerging Talent — one of 20 firms selected

  • 2019 - BC Wood Award — Swallowfield Barn

  • 2018 - AIBC special jury award — Swallowfield Barn

Publications

  • Filming in Progress Podcast Ep. 60

  • “Motivated to do Good Work” Rebecca Keillor for Vancouver Sun, July 8 2022

  • “Architecture by Design” Adrienne Matei for Sweet Potato Magazine, July 2022

  • 20 + Change, Emerging Talent, “MOTIV Architects” Natalie Badenduck for Canadian Architect, August 1, 2021

  • “The New Farm, Contemporary Rural Architecture” Daniel P. Gregory for Princeton Architectural Press, May 12, 2020 (Swallowfield Barn featured on book cover)

  • “Swallowfield Barn / MOTIV Architects” curated by Fernanda Castro for ArchDaily, March 12, 2018

  • “Swallowfield Barn” Bridget Cogley for Dezeen, December 1, 2017

  • “Motiv Architects experiments with cross-laminated timber for Vancouver garage” by Bridget Cogley, Dezeen, August 1, 2020

  • “Bare Beauty: Building Community on Swallowfield Farm” Andrea Marván for Edible Vancouver Wine Country, High Summer 2018

  • “A Labour of Love” Kurt Langmann for Langley Times – Homegrown, May 30, 2018

  • “Barn Reimagined” Andrea Marván for Thunderbird Equestrian Magazine, July 18, 2018