The good ship “Vancouverism” - a wooden structure of local design - has been successfully launched in Trafalgar Square, overlooked appropriately by Lord Nelson. At least according to today’s Sun: “London exhibition puts spotlight on Vancouver architects.”
Architecture critic Trevor Boddy has co-curated this presentation on the Vancouver Style, as it’s also called. (More here in Price Tags [...]
Dubai - a computer rendering of the Burj Dubai neighbourhood
Vancouver - Concord Pacific Quayside.
Read The Battle for the World’s Skyline here.
I didn’t have high expectations for the new Convention Centre. It was never intended to be a dynamic piece of architecture, partly because it was not to compete with the iconic image of the ’sails’ on the existing centre and partly because, unavoidably, there’s not much you can do with a big honkin’ box. Some [...]
Sean Hodgins, the head of Century Group, is undertaking a public process on the future of the “Southlands” in Tsawwassen (the old Spetifore lands) - including a recent charrette with Andres Duany, the New Urbanist architect who also conducted a similar exercise for the East Fraser Lands last year.
New Urbanism, often wrongly dismissed as a [...]
Apropos to 1960s planning (below) and the talk tonight by Toronto urban critic Christopher Hume at SFU Harbour Centre, here’s an intriguing project underway in TO, sent in by Matt Blackett from Spacing:
I was recently hired by ERA Architects here in Toronto to help them develop a blog for one of their projects. It’s called the [...]
Vancouver expects to be the focus of world attention in 2010, naturally, but there’s a good chance we’ll be upstaged by Shanghai - the host of a world’s fair that year. No doubt of that when it comes to architecture.
Here’s what we’ll be putting forth as a design statement - the Richmond speed-skating oval:
Here’s the [...]
A thoughtful and cleverly constructed profile of architect Bing Thom in the current Vancouver Magazine by Michael Harris. Bing’s a natural for an interview, always ready with a provocative quote:
“The tragedy here,” says Thom, “is that people in Vancouver have not figured out where we’re going. We’re drifting toward becoming a resort town—one giant Whistler. [...]
Bravo to The Sun for stoking a discussion on the future of Burrard Bridge - Bridging the Repair Bill Gap. Journalist Catherine Rolfsen found a range of opinon, from going ahead with the widening but trying to do it cheaper, to building a separate low-level bridge.
I like that idea. Build a passerelle, as the French [...]
It’s the best-looking building on the Sea-to-Sky Highway:
Mind you, there’s not a lot of competition.
This is the Squamish Adventure Centre - essentially a tourist information booth scaled to its setting and appropriate for, truly, the world-class outdoor-recreation opportunities in this region.
The architect was Richard Iredale, and he combined his design vocabulary with the metaphor of [...]
Signs of change are everywhere in Gastown and the Downtown East Side these days - most notably the Woodward’s tower, rising above it all. But the scaffolding has just dropped away from another development nearby, revealing what will undoubtedly be one of the heritage gems of the neighbourhood - the Flack Block.
This restoration and discreet [...]
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