Architecture
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Video Vancouver: C-SHORE
C-Shore is a pavilion designed and constructed by graduate students enrolled in a two-term design-build course at the UBC School of Architecture and...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: The Missing Middle Mystery
Via About Here Metro Vancouver primarily has two types of housing. High rises or the single family house. What happened to all the buildings in between...
By Yuri Artibise -
In Memoriam – Peter Cardew
This past week, the Vancouver architecture community was saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Cardew, an architectural titan and longtime champion...
By Sean Ruthen -
Student Housing as a Response to the Housing Crisis
The global housing crisis is a challenging and multi-faceted problem. Part of the solution, already successfully employed by universities, the campus...
By brianwakelin -
Bentham’s City: An Urban Monograph of Vancouver City Hall
[Editor’s Note: This piece was published over a decade ago—in what would eventually become Spacing Vancouver. In light of the ongoing discussion on...
By Erick Villagomez -
Video Vancouver: Polis Station
While this video was produced over 4 years ago, it has renewed resonance today. Widespread outrage and protests over recent acts of police violence in the...
By Yuri Artibise -
Six-foot City: The Classroom
That the pandemic has had a disastrous effect on local and global economies is blatantly clear. But we take for granted that the contemporary economic...
By Erick Villagomez -
Six-foot City: The Corridor
The lowly corridor falls well short of being adored by most people. Within our contemporary cultural imagination, its association with darkness and evil...
By Erick Villagomez -
Six-Foot City: Introduction
Although the recent pandemic has brought to light many important issues, none has been more pervasive than social distancing. Embedded in this discussion...
By Erick Villagomez -
Podcast: COVID Reflections
It is safe to say that it’s been a wild few months. And now, after two months of strict social distancing here in Canada, many provinces are starting to...
By Spacing -
Event: Bauhaus, Design and the Livable Anthropocene, University of Victoria, March 26
Bauhaus, Design and the Livable Anthropocene Presentations and Opening of Exhibit: Thursday, March 26, 2020, 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m., Mearns Centre for...
By Spacing -
Event: Iconic Houses Lecture Tour – The Melnikov House, Feb 27th
Iconic Houses Lecture Tour – The Melnikov House Presented by the West Coast Modern League WHEN: Thurs, Feb, 27, 2020 – 5 to 7pm – Reception...
By Spacing