Urban Design
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Video Vancouver: A Day in the Life of an Urban Reef
Timelapse of the Urban Reef, the 2014 Robson Redux winner.
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Monocle’s Quality of Life Cities
Monocle takes a cinematic look at the top cities in their 2014 Quality of Life Survey. They spotlight Copenhagen at number one, Tokyo as our top Asian...
By Yuri Artibise -
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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Video Vancouver: PARKING—Searching for the Good Life in the City
Via StreetFilms: Streetfilms is proud to partner with ITDP to bring you this fun animation that’s sort of a cross between those catchy Schoolhouse...
By Yuri Artibise -
BOOK REVIEW – Socially Restorative Urbanism: The theory, process and practice of Experiemics
Authors: Kevin Thwaites, Alice Mathers, Ian Simkins (Routledge, 2014) Over the past several decades, a number of frameworks have attempted to reshape the...
By Pietra Basilij -
RELEASE: City of Surrey PARKit winners announced
Surrey’s pop-up park is going ‘Gingham Style’ this summer. The classic concept of an outdoor picnic, inspired by the quintessential gingham checkered...
By Spacing -
RELEASE: Urban Design Awards
From the City of Vancouver: The inaugural Urban Design Awards recognize and celebrate excellence in architecture and urban design in Vancouver. Vancouver...
By Yuri Artibise -
Vancouver’s West End Gentrification
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett It’s one of the most densely...
By Adam Naamani -
Urban Reef: Meet the winning team of the 2014 Robson Redux
Kaz Bremner and Jeremiah Deutscher are two young intern architects, and the design duo of a four-person team, that have won the inaugural Robson Redux...
By Liz Vossen -
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...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
10 Ideas that are Changing the World
The GLOBE series 2014 Conference brought together policy makers and industry leaders to explore ideas and share real world examples of sustainable design...
By Anya Paskovic -
Studies on the West End – Camera Obscura 1555 Georgia Street
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Spacing