Sirous Ghanbarzadeh

Sirous is a Principal and Urban Designer with a background in architecture who has played a key role in developing complex master plans for campuses, waterfronts, downtowns, and new communities across North America, the UK, and Asia. His work with First Nation communities across Canada includes acting as lead urban designer for an extensive master planning exercise for the ʔəy̓alməxʷ/Iy̓álmexw/Jericho Lands in Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighbourhood, a 90-acre site within the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (MST) nations. He is also leading the urban design for the Tewin Master Plan for Algonquins of Ontario and master plan projects for Huu-ay-aht First Nations and Haisla Nations in BC. He is leading the development of the Kingsway and Edmonds redevelopment master plan for BC Housing and the City of Burnaby.  He was key in developing a precinct plan for Surrey’s new City Centre.

His campus planning work includes the University of Ottawa Campus Master Plan and Precinct Plans, which won numerous awards of excellence, the Simon Fraser University Burnaby Campus Plan, Brock University’s Student Housing study, and Cardiff University (Cathays Park) Urban Design Framework Plan in Wales. Sirous was the lead designer on the Niagara Complete Streets regional plan and Ottawa’s Scott Street Community Design Plan, which is guiding infill development and public realm improvements around the Tunney’s Pasture LRT station in Ottawa. He also completed a master plan for a Downtown Cultural Hub in the Town of Oakville, a master plan for a Brownfield Opportunity Area in Buffalo, New York, a community design plan for the Carling- Bayview area in Ottawa, a plan for a new commercial district development in Montreal called Marche Central, and a master plan framework for KamSheung Road New Development Area in Hong Kong. 

He is also actively engaged in various academic, teaching, and mentorship activities, acting as a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor at Vancouver Island University.