Streetscape
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Video Vancouver: A Bicycle Ride-the long version
Shot with a Braun Nizo Super 8 camera mounted on a bicycle. The camera had an intervalometer so it automatically shot a frame of film every so many...
By Caroline Toth -
Heritage House Tour Feature: Grandview Woodland
Bordered by Clark Dr, Broadway, Nanaimo St and the Burrard Inlet, this historic neighbourhood tells one of the common stories of Vancouver’s early...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Studies on the West End – Georgia Street
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Shelley Long -
Video Vancouver: The Visible City – Virtual Exhibition & Mobile App
The Visible City is a virtual exhibition and mobile tour that tracks the rise, fall, and revival of neon in Vancouver, shining a light on people whose...
By Yuri Artibise -
Visual Thoughts #26
Last VT image: Early morning parking lot food trucks, downtown Portland. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: Museum of Vancouver first North American cultural institution to take augmented reality “to the streets”
The Visible City now available for iPhone and Android Today the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) launches the Visible City, a virtual exhibition of Vancouver’s...
By Spacing -
Will Vancouver Replace a Freeway with a Stroad?
Vancouver’s freeway remnants are finally due for demolition. City staff like to draw comparisons to New York’s High Line and Seoul’s famous river...
By neilsalmond -
Densification, Development and Demolition: Heritage and the Three D’s
Dr. Jeff’s was a prominent Vancouver figure in the first decades of the 20th century. He was an Alderman, the City’s Police Commissioner and the City...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
A reluctant cyclist in Europe’s cycling capital – Part 2
Last Monday, I explored the the remarkable persistence of the Dutch cyclist in all types of weather, the Protestant roots of the culture, the impact of...
By Ren Thomas -
“Poodle” Installation Confuses
Written by Varouj Gumuchian Gisele Amantea’s seven-foot-tall “Untitled (Poodle)” sculpture on Main Street has been both a surprise and...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Urban Air
Urban Air is a wifi enabled green billboard that replaces advertising with living bamboo, water and climate monitoring technology.
By Caroline Toth -
Wood Windows – Making the Case for Sustainability
It is a frequent occurrence in Vancouver. A van pulls up to an old house and within a few hours the house has new windows. It is as easy now to replace...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation