Architecture
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A Better Broadway Plan: Radical Pro-Affordability
It’s not a good week to be a member of Vancouver City Council. Confronted with a final decision on the Broadway Plan, and now brutally aware of its...
By Patrick Condon -
The Ziggurats of Richmond
They swept away the suburban scenery that once defined much of Richmond and built the ziggurats. Auto shops, blackberry thickets, spas, snooker halls, and...
By Christopher Cheung -
Taking Us Where The Sun Don’t Shine – The Broadway Plan
Why bother? The survey flashes across your horizon suggesting a moment of importance. You click on the survey and give your opinion. What is really in...
By grahammcgarva -
The Jericho Lands Need a Human-Scaled Rethink
Vancouver is destined to have a new neighbourhood on its west side, one so densely populated that Council recently approved routing the proposed subway to...
By scothein -
Too Obsessed with ‘Character’ Homes?
Go to just about any Vancouver council meeting or public hearing to do with urban growth and you can bet someone will say that change will hurt...
By Christopher Cheung -
Optimizing Social Connection: An Interview with Saif Khan
[EDITOR’S NOTE: It is with the heaviest heart that we at Spacing Vancouver inform readers of the unexpected passing of Ulduz Maschaykh. Known to...
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Vancouver Needs Way More Co-ops. Here’s How to Get Them
The cost of housing has reached a crisis point in Vancouver, with no clear agreement on what to do about it. Which made it a rare moment when...
By Patrick Condon -
Vancouver’s Dramatic New Plan for Broadway: Five Questions
The City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan has been released for public comment and is full of dramatic proposals. Profusely illustrated, over 100 pages long...
By Patrick Condon -
Tall Vancouver Tales Part I – How Vancouver Grew Up, with Donald Luxton
This past week, the Museum of Vancouver and the RAIC BC/Yukon put on its first talk in the new Architecture & the City Series, entitled Go Big or Go...
By Spacing -
Deconstructing Visuals 2.0
It’s been 10 months since I wrote Deconstructing Visuals. Within that piece, I argued that the architectural profession’s dominion over the methods and...
By Erick Villagomez -
EVENT: Tall Vancouver Tales, featuring Donald Luxton
Tall Vancouver Tales, featuring Donald Luxton When: November 9th, 2021 7:00 – 8:30 Where: The Museum of Vancouver Tickets: $15 Join the RAIC and...
By Spacing -
The New Architectural Spires of Canada’s National Religion
The highest regularly inhabited floor space of any building in Canada is the 72nd floor of First Canadian Place in Toronto. The building has served a very...
By Matthew Soules