I sit on the board of the Sightline Institute, so I’m always pleased to see the Seattle-based organization get good coverage in Lower Mainland media. The release of their report on compact urban form in the region certainly did that, as evidenced by Jeff Nagel’s piece in the Surrey North Delta Leader.
The best part of [...]
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 [...]
Like swallows in spring, the articles on endangered suburbs are being sighted with increasing frequency. Here is the latest from the Guardian:
The full onset of the mortgage foreclosure crisis, coupled with demographic changes, rising fuel prices and a host of other factors means that the suburbs could be on the way out. One analyst has [...]
I’ve been wondering for awhile whether, in the current housing meltdown in the U.S., location would make any difference on house prices and foreclosures. In particular, would the length of a commute now constitute a disadvantage great enough to overcome the “drive ’til you qualify” mortgage advantage of distant development?
Yup, apparently it would.
According to this piece on National [...]
Not good news.
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 [...]
This bit of pavement doesn’t rank as “New Stuff” quite yet: it’s the southern end of the Carrall Street Greenway (design here) - a critical link between the False Creek seawall and, eventually, Burrard Inlet and Coal Harbour, completing the loop around the Downtown Peninsula. Eventually, thousands will be biking, blading and walking on this [...]
Down to Seattle last weekend: dismal weather, but an opportunity to see some of the city’s newest development.
It’s a good news/bad news story. The new light rail line connecting Downtown with the Airport is nearing completion. At least there’s enough on the ground to get a sense of what’s coming - and “on the ground” [...]
A few weeks ago in the Vancouver Sun, John Mackie wrote about “What Might Have Been.”
The most mind-boggling plans were for the freeway systems in the late 1950s and 1960s….
The wackiest proposal was to build a giant trench through downtown so that cars could vroom non-stop from the Burrard Bridge to a new third crossing [...]
Interior designer Mitchell Freedland has an interesting observation in this Globe article when he was asked why Vancouver is at the forefront of condo design.
I think it’s the luck of economy and geography. In the fifties and sixties, our downtown was a dense cluster of high-rises and it was natural to go from the rental market [...]
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