It’s the best-looking building on the Sea-to-Sky Highway:
Mind you, there’s not a lot of competition.
This is the Squamish Adventure Centre – essentially a tourist information booth scaled to its setting and appropriate for, truly, the world-class outdoor-recreation opportunities in this region.
The architect was Richard Iredale, and he combined his design vocabulary with the metaphor of an eagle’s wings.
The 9,500-square-foot structure naturally (and literally) has to meet a high standard of sustainability: locally sourced materials (in fact sap from the fir will continue to seep for up to four years), no use of chemicals in the water, much of which is retained rainfall, crushed basalt for the footings and no preloading to minimize impact on the wetlands.
Expect better landscaping when the highway turn-off is completed. Which is, of course, the irony. This is all part of a largely auto-dependent transportation system – as reflected in the advertising for development occurring in the corridor:
“Easy commutes.” Until you get to Taylor Way and Marine in West Vancouver.
The dumb thing is that by the time you see the building heading northbound, you’ve already past the entrance which is from the main cross street (not directly from the highway).
I need the price as soon as possible or I will fail my project I am 11 years old I left my e-mail adress. I need a price for how much it costs to stay at the Sqamish Adventure Centure!