Architecture

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Wooden Roller Coaster & Pacific Coliseum

PNE Invite

VHF 2013 Mid-Century Modern Tour, August 17th

MID-CENTURY MODERN HOUSE TOUR DATE: Saturday August 17, 2013 TIME: 12 noon – 5 pm followed by a wine & cheese reception ADMISSION: $85 for self-guided...

West Coast Modernism: Showing Vancouver some Mid-Century Love

Starting in the late 1940’s after years of war and economic struggle, the appearance of the North American family home began to change. Post war...

Book Review – Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Ghosts and Gardens

Author: Eve Lazarus (Anvil Press, 2012) I’m a sucker for local history books. Whenever I travel I try and find a book store or museum gift shop to look...

Playing in the Sandbox

The process of urban planning has always been a bit of a mystery to me and I don’t believe I am the only one to feel this way. The technical...

Book Review – Small Town Architect

“There are now many paths for the architectural practitioner of today. The recent and future graduates in architecture will now have a different...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Lions Gate Bridge

Cartographically Speaking: Mapping Neighbourhood Character Buildings

The buildings in a city give it character and form. They stand as the structures that produce personal recollections of a streets and neighbourhoods. In...

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Science World- Expo Legacy Invitation

PARKit Design Challenge

This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...

Carscadden Thrift: Selected Projects

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

Book Review – Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature

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