By Vancouver Heritage Foundation
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Adaptive Re-Use: The Joy of Re-purposed Buildings
VHF would like to thank this post’s guest writer, Marta Farevaag – Urban Planner. In Vancouver, our residential neighbourhoods are strikingly...
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Modernist Vancouver: The Award-Winning Buildings of the Post-War Era
While Modernism began as early as the late 1910s and early 1920s, the period after World War II gave a major push in ideology and material development...
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Adaptive Re-Use through “Loft-Style Living”
With tall ceilings, open floor plans by Epoxy floors nyc and often large windows it is not hard to see why people are drawn to loft-style apartments. The...
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A Made-in-Vancouver Experience: The Vancouver Special
“There’s a shared sense of experience that comes from living in a Vancouver Special that’s uniquely Vancouver and that cuts across so many diverse...
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Main Streets: At the Heart of Vancouver’s Communities
Main streets enliven downtowns everywhere. The mix of public spaces with a diverse array of heritage buildings and new developments house cafés, theatres...
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A Century After 1914: Vancouver’s War Memorials
Across Canada there are over 6,000 monuments and cenotaphs dedicated to remembering those who fought in the Great War (1914-18). This year marks the...
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Modernism in Vancouver Part Two: West Coast Modernism
While mid-century commercial architecture was embracing International Style with its clean-edged steel and glass construction, Modernism in Vancouver’s...
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Modernism in Vancouver Part One: Post War Idealism
Early Vancouver architecture was epitomized by wood and stone structures, heavy on terra cotta detailing. After the First World War architecture world...
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First Growth Lumber: Vancouver’s Early Industry
The west coast once supported some of the largest trees in the world including Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, pine, spruce, maple and yew. Some of those...
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The Strathcona Story: A community that fought back, and the Architect that helped rebuild
In December of 1968, the residents of one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods, Strathcona, were faced with losing their neighbourhood. Whole city blocks...
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Hay, Horseshoes, and the Blues: The Story of the Yale Hotel
Originally named the Colonial Hotel when it opened in 1889, the iconic building at the corner of Drake and Granville has been the Yale Hotel since 1907...
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Conserving Heritage through Re-imagining of Space
In the conservation tool kit, heritage enthusiasts have several methods to support the preservation of historic spaces. Preserving ‘as-is, where-is’ can...