Architecture

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...

PHOTO: Surrey City Hall

Scaffolding for the construction of the new Surrey City Hall, Surrey / By Don Schuetze Contribute your photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool

PHOTO: Surrey Central Library

Interior of Surrey Central Library, Whalley / By Colin Knowles Contribute photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool

Release: Museum of Vancouver first North American cultural institution to take augmented reality “to the streets”

The Visible City now available for iPhone and Android Today the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) launches the Visible City, a virtual exhibition of Vancouver’s...

Carscadden Book Launch: Thrift, May 2

Carscadden Thrift Book Launch DATE: Thursday, May 2nd TIME: 6pm-9pm LOCATION: Vancouver Special, 3612 Main Street ADMISSION: Free. Bruce Carscadden...

PHOTO: The Patullo Bridge

The Patullo Bridge, Surrey / By Don Schuetez Contribute your photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool

Densification, Development and Demolition: Heritage and the Three D’s

Dr. Jeff’s was a prominent Vancouver figure in the first decades of the 20th century.  He was an Alderman, the City’s Police Commissioner and the City...

Book Review – Stewardship of the Built Environment

Author: Robert A. Young (Island Press, 2012) “The greenest building is one that is already built” Waste from demolition makes up 22% of materials in the...