In 1988–89, Soren Rasmussen designed the conversion of The Landing at 375 Water Street — a nine-storey, 220,000-square-foot brick warehouse built in 1905 to supply gold-rush prospectors — into two levels of shops and restaurants, a parking level, four floors of offices, and a hotel planned for its top two floors.

The original tiered facades were retained while the interior was upgraded to meet seismic standards, with considerable structural work opening up the lower levels. Inside, a sense of history and warmth was kept by exposing the original brick and heavy timber construction — arched windows, massive columns, ornamental wood moulding and quarter-sawn oak floors — and the firm went on to design the storefronts and some eighty percent of the retail spaces.

The project received the BC Heritage Award and the Interior Design Institute of BC Silver Award in 1989, and the Vancouver Heritage Award in 1988. Rasmussen never really left the building: the studio kept its own award-winning office upstairs, and in 1995 he returned to its foot as architect and co-founder of Steamworks Brew Pub.

The studio's photography for this project has not yet been recovered — but see the Soren Rasmussen Architects Office page for the firm's own rooms inside The Landing.