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Feb. 01, 2007 / Gordon Price

Moscow Paint Job

Michael Klassen – newly appointed to the Vancouver City Planning Commission – sends along a snippet from his blog (via…
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Jan. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Mutual Admirers

Brian Libby writes the definitive blog for those admirers of things architectural and urban in Portland. I sent him the…
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Jan. 25, 2007 / Gordon Price

Soviet Roadside Bus-stops

Yes, a whole collection of Soviet Roadside Bus-stops! It’s one of those sites you just have to share (which is…
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Jan. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

Guess Where

Can you identify the city in which this house is located? Peter Simpson, the CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home…
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Jan. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

Rochon Unabridged: Time to build outside the box

Here’s the full story that Lisa Rochon wrote in the Globe and Mail about Vancouver’s need for more iconic architure.…
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Jan. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Duany in Vancouver

  The debate on Vancouver’s lack of iconic architecture does seem to be heating up.  Good timing, then, by The…
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Jan. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

Fewer Rules, Less Mediocrity? Don't Count on it

PT reader Timothy Thomas writes in: Lisa Rochon hits the nail on its monotonous little head. Finally, after five years,…
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Jan. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

We're in the Green

ArchNewsNow.com – a daily e-newsletter indispensible for those into architecture – has a nice piece on the American Institute of…
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Jan. 10, 2007 / Gordon Price

Chinese-style Maple

Architects in China: a cautionary tale.…
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Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

What Happened?

How did the proposal for the Hotel Georgia tower go from this: To this: PT Reader Timothy Thomas speculates: Sadly, I…
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Dec. 16, 2006 / Gordon Price

Revenge of the Small

Author Karrie Jacobs – the keynote speaker at mid-October’s Affordable Housing by Design conference – has some nice things to…
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Dec. 10, 2006 / Gordon Price

Where art VAG?

Timothy Thomas, regular PT reader, sends the following plea: Here’s a piece on the superb new Institute of Contemporary Art…
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Dec. 06, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Whole Hole

This is the biggest construction hole in the Lower Mainland:   It’s at the corner of Ioco Road, between Murray and…
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Nov. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

Rising above the mundane

While the ‘Vancouver Style’ (the so-called point-and-podium) has much to recommend it, particularly the way it relates to its neighbours and…

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