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May. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

Los Angeles (Re)discovers the Missing Middle

One of Vancouver’s Sister Cities is Los Angeles (yup, LA) – a city that builds fewer new homes per capita…
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Apr. 30, 2021 / Gordon Price

Design Theme for the Broadway SkyTrain Stations: Ultra-Bland

The Daily Hive has posted renderings of the proposed SkyTrain stations along the Broadway line.  What a disappointment for such…
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Apr. 27, 2021 / Gordon Price

Buildings that Changed Vancouver 2 – Ocean Towers

  Ah yes, the Miami Beach of English Bay: Ocean Towers.   From Changing Vancouver: The design – seen in…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Starchitect Designed Vancouver House Floods Itself: Should Radical Design Be Rethought?

Everywhere around the world the tall buildings are called marvels of engineering, providing custom work and employment for the Hollywood…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Buildings that Changed Vancouver: 2280 Cornwall

Michael Kluckner riffs off the post from Michael Gordon below to recount the story of the building that marked the…
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Apr. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Last Highrise in Kitsilano

Michael Gordon* explores a misconception about Kitsilano in the Seventies – that, in a reaction to what was felt to…
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Apr. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Getting out of the ‘free parking’ hole

Daily Scot found another egregious example of what ‘free parking’ actually costs. Oh the lengths we go to for underground…
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Apr. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Guess that gentrified neighbourhood (and what comes next)

If you took a quick glance at this (as I did on one of my urban Tumblr feeds), where might…
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Mar. 30, 2021 / Gordon Price

Michael Gordon: Towards the ‘Missing Middle’

By Michael Gordon The City of Vancouver’s housing stock stands out as having the lowest proportion of single-detached dwellings (one…
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Mar. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

The End of the Single-Family House is Underway (Updated)

The city-wide Vancouver plan discussion seems to be coming down to one thing: the end of RS-1 (or single-family zoning…
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Mar. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 2 – Complete Streets and Lolo Lanes

Councillor Tony Valente has been advocating for ‘complete streets’ even before he ran for council in the City of North…
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Mar. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 1 – Lonsdale Quay

  A trip across the water last week to meet City of North Vancouver Councillor Tony Valente for an e-bike…
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Mar. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stan Douglas’s Art in the Moynihan Train Hall

The greatest loss in the heritage history of America was the demolition of Pennsylvania Station in 1964.  From the grandeur…
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Mar. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Colour in Our Housing

In the post below – Colour in Our Social Housing – Daily Scot found examples of good modest design in…

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