Architecture
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Uh oh. I’m a Planner and Planning Makes Housing More Expensive
Thank Andy Yan for throwing yet another rock into the placid pond of our taken for granted assumptions. As someone who advocates planning and has called...
By Patrick Condon -
RELEASE: Community Housing for Resilient Communities, April 1st
Community Housing for Resilient Communities WHEN: Monday, April 01, 2019 – 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm WHERE: Victoria Conference Centre, Sannich Room...
By Spacing -
The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series
As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in partnership with the...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’
Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family residences to pay a...
By scothein -
How a Smart, Progressive Property Tax Could Ease Our Housing Crisis
Guest author: Patrick Condon Does Vancouver need a new kind of tax on land? City council thinks it might, so has asked city staff to study a version put...
By Spacing -
Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more than any inhabitant can...
By Erick Villagomez -
VancouverSpeculations: Covered Playgrounds
http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2018/12/17/vancouverspeculations-covered-playgrounds/Covered playground concept. To enlarge the image, click here. For many...
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Do Small in a Big Way: BC Housing Society’s first annual Summit
It’s not a movement about people claiming to be ‘tinier than thou’ but rather people making their own choices toward simpler and smaller living however...
By Sean Ruthen -
The Changing Role of Architects in Canada – Lively Discussions at POP // CAN // CRIT 2018
The third Pop Can Crit architecture symposium, titled The Business of Architecture in Canada looked at the synergy between architecture as science...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
District Lot 185: Vancouver’s West End
Written for VHF by guest author, Michael Kluckner. No Vancouver neighbourhood has more layers of heritage than the West End. Its early settlers’...
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Book Review: Rome – Urban Formation and Transformation
Author: Jon Michael Schwarting (Applied Research & Design, 2017) If you are into Roman architecture and urban planning…..and drawings, this is...
By Fausto -
Event: POP // CAN // CRIT 2018: The Business of Architecture in Canada, Oct. 19th
POP // CAN // CRIT 2018: The Business of Architecture in Canada WHERE: Simon Fraser University, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Room 2555, Vancouver...
By Spacing