Scot Bathgate alerted us to a story on the scale of new development at UBC, featured in VanCity Buzz (with recognition to their writer Kenneth Chan, who gives a great, well-illustrated overview here: UBC campus a city in itself, in process of complete transformation. )
What jumped out? Literally, this:
The University of British Columbia has opened the first campus skatepark in North America, giving students, campus residents and Metro enthusiasts a new place to get radical on their skateboards, BMX bikes and rollerblades. …
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The nearly $500,000 project is a partnership between UBC and the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA) – which represents the growing campus population of 18,000 residents. Development of the park included significant consultation with the community and UBC Athletics.
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I also have to reference Part 1 of Chan’s overview of UBC: Renaissance Italy or the original vision for the UBC campus? because it gives a chance to feature a rendering – the original vision for the campus from 1912 – that I had never seen before.
