By Gordon Price
Price Points: The Final Opening of Emery Barnes Park
Price Points began last July with this image: . . It’s Emery Barnes Park, in the heart of Downtown South (map here). And... Read More
Price Points: Beauty = Waste
What’s going on behind the shrink wrap? . They’re doing work on the exterior of the Dal Grauer Substation on Burrard... Read More
Price Points: The Goldilocks Campus
Why, when compared to its predecessors, is this space just about right? . This is the Atrium at Simon Fraser University’s... Read More
Price Points: An Easter House
The perfect home for Easter: magnolias in the front yard, daffodils on the boulevard, arcs of eggs strung over the stairs, and... Read More
Price Points: A Village in the City
Once a thriving village of 40 stores and a school prior to World War I, it became a quiet backwater within a decade – and still... Read More
The Merrick House: Outside and In
Last weekend – on, at last, a sunny day – I cycled out to Eagle Harbour in West Vancouver to check on “an architectural wonder”: the... Read More
Price Points: The Social Life of a Small Urban Place
It is one of the most extravagant public spaces in Vancouver – if measured by the care and cost of its design. And yet this... Read More
Price Points:The Beginning of Vancouverism?
. Did “Vancouverism” start here? . . What’s ‘Vancouverism,’ some recent arrival might ask? Our friend... Read More
Price Points: An absence of something iconic
It’s a Thursday evening and we’ll all on the 236, heading to one of the great places in the Lower Mainland: Grouse... Read More
Price Points: the Bewildering Birth of Metrotown
The last in our series on Burnaby’s urban centres (Brentwood, Lougheed, Edmonds) based on the work of David Pereira. This week... Read More