Architecture
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Restoring Heritage: The Ripple Effect
Have you ever noticed that once someone fixes up one house, the neighbouring houses quickly follow? Whether or not you agree with the “broken window...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Ai Weiwei: Art | Architecture
“…when I finished building my house, I learned that I was an architect.” Author: Ai Weiwei (Kunsthaus Bregenz – 2011) With 2012 about to draw to...
By Sean Ruthen -
Writing About Architecture – Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities
“There are times when city dwellers have been roused from passivity – Disaster (Ground Zero) and personal affront (NIMBYism) make protesters out of...
By Sean Ruthen -
Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years
“As the eighties progressed , the city – especially its residential areas – endured a demolition spree. The theme of my earlier Vanishing Vancouver book...
By Sean Ruthen -
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) – Part 1
[Editor’s note: We are pleased to give Spacing Vancouver reader’s a deeper look into Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS...
By Sean Ruthen -
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
“The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture completes my study on the role of the senses, embodiment, and imagination in architectural...
By Sean Ruthen -
Go East, Young City, Security and Aesthetic improvements
“The Burns Block is named for its original owner and builder, Patrick Burns of P. Burns & Company, who had it built in 1909 as the headquarters...
By Sean Ruthen -
A Vancouver “Extra” Special in Strathcona
Since it’s first appearance in 1965, the Vancouver Special has become a ubiquitous fixture of Vancouver’s urban landscape. With their flat...
By Yuri Artibise -
Toward a Culture of Wood Architecture
“There needs to be a strategic rethinking of how we design buildings in order to maximize the value of the materials and...
By Sean Ruthen -
Vancouver and Housing Affordability
With the Vancouver Mayoral Election heating up, one of the city’s major campaign issues has become affordable housing. Vision Vancouver is...
By Jason Pfeifer -
Tom Kundig: Houses 2
Edited by Daniel S. Friedman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “Tom Kundig’s architecture possesses the relaxed and unpretentious air of...
By Sean Ruthen -
Vancouver Helps Launch the CanU
If this article is the first you’ve heard of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, you’re not alone. Its board is a veritable who’s who of...
By Brian Gould