Streetscape
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RELEASE: Kickstart the Bike Bar for Main Street’s French Quarter Parklet
Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France is sponsoring a parklet on 21st at Main: a fun, interactive public space for seating and a place for gathering...
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Q & A with Julien Thomas, Mastermind behind the Commercial Drive Parklet
Last week Spacing wrote about a new public space project to land on Commercial Drive in 2014. The project titled Commercial Drive Parklet (CDP) is one of...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
A Name You Should Know: Charles Marega
You may not recognize the name, but his sculptures are all over Vancouver. Although he received many commissions throughout his career Charles Marega’s...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Support a new public space in Commercial Drive!
There is an exciting project coming to Commercial Drive on 2014! The Commercial Drive Parklet is one of the selected projects from VIVA Vancouver’s...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
The Hotels Vancouver: How One Name Graced Three Buildings
From right after the Great Fire in 1886 until present day, Vancouver has always had a structure titled “The Hotel Vancouver”. Always influential, often...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Video Vancouver: Vancouver City 2 Time Lapse in 4K
Vancouver City 2 Time Lapse took us 6 months and over 50,000 pictures to complete. We used Nikon DSLR cameras to capture images higher than 4k resolution...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Fogcouver
Some great shots of the fog that has enveloped our city this week.
By Yuri Artibise -
Upcycle Urbanism: Remembering the Reinvention of Granville Street
For seven months (much longer for some), volunteers from Spacing Magazine, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Vancouver Public...
By Anya Paskovic -
GO PLAY IN THE STREET – The Power of PARK(ing) DAY
Public Intervention on Public Space Last Friday (September 20) a special thing happened in parking stalls on streets in many city’s across North America...
By Kathleen Corey -
Park(ING) Day 2013 in Vancouver
It’s international Park(ing) Day around the world. September 20th is a day where artists, designers and citizens formally and informally transform...
By Brendan Hurley -
Book Review – Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall
Author: Rosten Woo and Meredith Tenhoor with Damion Rich (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) Who knew that such a small and unassuming book could cut...
By Jeremy Senko -
Video Vancouver: Move
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3...
By Caroline Toth