Architecture
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Kids in the City: Raising a family in a 500sq ft laneway home
Akua Schatz, a director at the Canadian Green Building Council, and her photographer husband, Brendon Purdy, currently live in a home that is smaller than...
By Jillian Glover -
RELEASE: New Westminster Affordable Housing Projects on Small Sites: Request for Proposals
The City of New Westminster is requesting proposals (RFP) for innovative affordable ownership or rental housing projects for two city-owned sites. The...
By Spacing -
Modernist Vancouver: The Award-Winning Buildings of the Post-War Era
While Modernism began as early as the late 1910s and early 1920s, the period after World War II gave a major push in ideology and material development...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
EVENTS: Robson Redux Winners Meet and Greet, June 28th
Join us for an afternoon design talk, followed by a meet and greet with Chicago-based architects Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer – the winners of VIVA...
By Spacing -
Adaptive Re-Use through “Loft-Style Living”
With tall ceilings, open floor plans by Epoxy floors nyc and often large windows it is not hard to see why people are drawn to loft-style apartments. The...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Visual Thoughts #55
Last VT image: Warehouse in Burnaby, BC. *** Isabelle Kim is a Vancouver-based Communications & Design B.A. from SFU, involved in past public space...
By Isabelle Kim -
Evolution of the “City”
The suburban sprawl is slowing down and the age of the hipster, urban, ultra-dense downtown core is becoming ever more prevalent in today’s world...
By Brittany Lee -
Release: Emily Carr University Breaks Ground
Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson was joined today by students, faculty and alumni to mark the start of design and construction of a new campus...
By Spacing -
In Focus: Downtown Vancouver Public Plazas
As a part of research I have been conducting around public spaces within Downtown Vancouver, I was curious to look into Vancouver’s history, and began my...
By Isabelle Kim -
RELEASE: Procedural Fairness for the Proposed Re-zoning Application at 508 Helmcken Street
To: Mayor and Councilors, City of Vancouver Re: Procedural Fairness for the Proposed Re-zoning Application at 508 Helmcken Street (RTS No.10912) Dear...
By Spacing -
A Made-in-Vancouver Experience: The Vancouver Special
“There’s a shared sense of experience that comes from living in a Vancouver Special that’s uniquely Vancouver and that cuts across so many diverse...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Release – AIBC Call for Papers for 2015 AIBC Annual Conference: Deadline April 8, 2015
The Architectural Institute of British Columbia invites submissions from those interested in speaking, participating in panel discussions or facilitating...
By Erick Villagomez