By Gordon Price
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Price Points: Beauty = Waste
What’s going on behind the shrink wrap? . They’re doing work on the exterior of the Dal Grauer Substation on Burrard Street (map here...
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Price Points: The Goldilocks Campus
Why, when compared to its predecessors, is this space just about right? . This is the Atrium at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus – a...
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Price Points: An Easter House
The perfect home for Easter: magnolias in the front yard, daffodils on the boulevard, arcs of eggs strung over the stairs, and probably a ham cooking in...
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Price Points: A Village in the City
Once a thriving village of 40 stores and a school prior to World War I, it became a quiet backwater within a decade – and still is. . . This is 3500...
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The Merrick House: Outside and In
Last weekend – on, at last, a sunny day – I cycled out to Eagle Harbour in West Vancouver to check on “an architectural wonder”: the house Paul Merrick...
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Price Points: The Social Life of a Small Urban Place
It is one of the most extravagant public spaces in Vancouver – if measured by the care and cost of its design. And yet this plaza at Park Place...
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Price Points:The Beginning of Vancouverism?
. Did “Vancouverism” start here? . . What’s ‘Vancouverism,’ some recent arrival might ask? Our friend the Wiki says...
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Price Points: An absence of something iconic
It’s a Thursday evening and we’ll all on the 236, heading to one of the great places in the Lower Mainland: Grouse Mountain. . No surprise...
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Price Points: the Bewildering Birth of Metrotown
The last in our series on Burnaby’s urban centres (Brentwood, Lougheed, Edmonds) based on the work of David Pereira. This week: Metrotown....
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Price Points: Old L.A.
I’m off to Los Angeles, and back in a few weeks with a continuation of the Burnaby town-centre series. In the meantime, here’s a shot of Old...
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Price Points: A Hint of What Was to Come
Where’s this, what’s inside, and why does it look like this? . . According to the one discreet sign tucked under the...
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Price Points: Versailles in Suburbia
Acres of formal gardens, beautifully maintained – inspired by Versailles and Hampton Court, of all places, but mere meters from a SkyTrain...