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PARKit Design Challenge

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This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build... Read More

Carscadden Thrift: Selected Projects

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Bruce Carscadden Architect is a small design studio based in Vancouver, Canada. In nearly a decade of practice, our firm has designed... Read More

Fork in the Road: Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionary

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Burnaby Heights is an interesting and often overlooked neighbourhood. One of Vancouver’s original streetcar suburbs, the Heights... Read More

Studies on the West End – Connectivity/Walkability/Sense of Community

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Student: Salma Kashani In this project, I chose to explore the spatial possibilities of a simple geometric grid. Toward this end, I... Read More

Vancouver’s Early Red Light District and the Heritage House Tour

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There are some beautiful homes on the Vancouver Heritage House Tour this year—a couple of old Shaughnessy manors, a quirky turreted... Read More

Book Review – Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature

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A tree assumes its form depending on its variety. By repeating very simple rules, the tree creates a very complex order. But a tree... Read More

Driving Up the Cost – A new perspective on affordability in Vancouver

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To say affordability is an important issue in this region would be an understatement. Vancouver has been recognized as one of the... Read More

Visual Thoughts

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Last VT image: Grouse Mountain at night, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is... Read More

Reading the City

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I have been thinking about how I read the city. A plaque at Hastings and Hamilton Streets in Vancouver is dedicated to Lauchlan... Read More

Studies on the West End – Georgia Street

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[Editor's Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, amazing work never see the light... Read More