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Feb. 23, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Planning the New Broadway

Vancouver is getting a major Skytrain extension, a rapid transit line through the second-largest employment corridor in the Province of…
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Feb. 22, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our Falling Tower – 3

The Landmark Hotel on Robson is quickly disappearing.  The surprisingly quiet drilling machines are like vocacious insects, feasting on concrete,…
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Feb. 20, 2019 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Is mandatory parking in the West End just a big expensive hole?

By Scot Bathgate: Vancouver has gone to great lengths to develop a vibrant pedestrian and bicycle friendly downtown core with…
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Feb. 20, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Why Mid-Rise “Stumpies” are Everywhere

We all know them and they are popular in cities~those blocky apartment buildings often with retail on the main floor…
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Feb. 14, 2019 / Gordon Price

SFU Bell Lecture: Vancouverism in a World of Cities

The Third Annual Bell Urban Forum   Vancouverism in a World of Cities   Nearly twenty years ago, ‘Vancouverism’ began…
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Feb. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Intersectionality 2: – Cambie and Broadway

It was never a landmark, but the two-storey building on the southwest corner of Cambie and Broadway was well-known merely…
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Jan. 28, 2019 / Gordon Price

Name That Skyline

An unfamiliar look of a rather familiar place. Answer found by clicking on the headline of this post.…
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Jan. 24, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Turkey Mystery: Best Guesses

Why is there a carving of turkeys on the Hotel Vancouver? I wasn’t the only one who was curious.  Glenda…
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Jan. 24, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Art Gallery’s Newest Design, Newest Donor

I have been writing about the new Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) sporadically as new information comes up about the project. Everyone…
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Jan. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

Name That Skyline

Another example of a very familiar skyline that has changed so radically in the last few years, it seems to…
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Dec. 28, 2018 / Gordon Price

Name That Skyline

Having not seen a recent view of a familiar skyline from this angle, I truly didn’t recognize it.  Answer below…
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Dec. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

Merry Vancouver Christmas, PT Readers

This Christmas card from the 50s via the Museum of Vancouver is just the thing for PT.  It looks west…
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Dec. 24, 2018 / Gordon Price

The 1970s are Coming Down – 10

As Daily Scot reminded me, how can you have a series on Seventies architecture without including the Landmark (Sheraton and…
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Dec. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

It’s Not the Building, It’s the Message

  So far, the opposition has the momentum – to newer, denser development in the region. The District of North…

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