D'AMBROSIO architecture + urbanism is a Victoria-based architectural practice with principal, Architect, Franc D'Ambrosio MAIBC MRAIC.

Located on a one-acre site in downtown Victoria, the Atrium Building comprises approximately 20 000 square metres of class A office and retail space spread across seven levels, with two levels of underground parking. Its design holds aesthetic distinction, user comfort, and civic responsibility as its guiding principles. The seven-storey form is clad in pre-cast concrete panels, zinc, and glass. The proportions and façade-scaled detail responds to the historic context of Victoria’s downtown. The street-level retail and orientation of the atrium and office entries serve the specific use patterns of the site. The project has achieved a LEED Gold rating based in part through the use of passive energy saving and daylighting strategies made possible by the incorporation of an internal atrium. Green roof technology, street-edge rain gardens, and a high-efficiency envelope also contribute to the environmentally sustainable design.

The Nigel Valley is a 3.61 hectare (8.9 acre) portion of a semi-urban block located in the District of Saanich, BC. The site is comprised of twelve individual properties currently owned and occupied by number of health-care institutions, supportive residential, market residential and non-market residential uses. At present, 185 residences within the Nigel Valley provide homes for families, seniors, vulnerable individuals, a licensed residential care facility for adults with physical disabilities, and an institutional centre providing day services and programs for individuals with developmental disabilities. Current building uses and forms range from two-storey institutional, to four-storey apartments, town houses and 3 single-family dwellings.

As the project that completes the Selkirk Waterfront Neighbourhood urban design plan in Victoria BC, the building at 2950 Jutland Road is the link between multiple uses, forms and contexts. Formally, the building is an intersection of two building types. Four levels of commercial offices over a double-height commercial ground floor overlap a two level residential podium. The two uses are expressed as distinct forms and are contoured to their distinct adjacencies: the residential apartments face the waterfront boardwalk and are entered via a main door facing the local Waterfront Crescent on the opposite side; the commercial office floors are curved to the frontage of Jutland Road, the principal street through this comprehensively planned area. The hybrid building negotiates the boundary between urban water’s edge and urban streets, and the diversity of uses occurring in that place.

This urban design plan is for the central and waterfront areas of the Royal Bay development in Colwood, BC. It is a brownfield site, a former gravel quarry on the water front with views to Victoria, the San Juan Islands and the Olypmic Mountains.

Occupying a prominent corner near the historic City Hall in downtown Victoria, the complex has two levels of sub-grade parking below a street-level of commercial uses, landscaped boulevards and public plazas. The six-storey (West) and 13-storey (East) building wings house class-A office spaces above. The network of outdoor and indoor spaces include a round atrium that will be open to the public during business hours. This skylit rotunda is designed as an informal meeting place and a venue for community events.