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Jul. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

Thin Streets: From Asphalt to Affordable Housing

By Christina DeMarco and Peter Ladner Great ideas are as much about timing as content. Remember the first attempt to…
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Jul. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

Why it’s hard to take modern architecture seriously

Shortly after the Notre-Dame de Paris fire in 2019, according to Architectural Digest, “Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced a competition…
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Jun. 13, 2020 / Gordon Price

Eating on the Street: The Patio Expands

Until a few years ago, space beyond the curb was for parking, picking stuff up, getting on a bus and…
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Jun. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

Impromptu Gym in the Covid City

Street video of Skateboarders on the stairs at Robson Square here. Robson Square on the afternoon of June 1st  Imagine…
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Jun. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

The 24-Hour Patio

From Michael Alexander: What an be accomplished when Council gives the go-ahead. On Marinaside Crescent, alongside the Seawall, from start…
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Jun. 06, 2020 / Gordon Price

Colour in Brisbane – 1

In Grey Days and Grey Ways, PT asked why grey seems to be Vancouver’s default colour.  Lots of great comments,…
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Jun. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Corner Store in the West End

Say “corner store in the West End” … and the romantic among us think of this: Most aren’t really ‘corner…
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May. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Grey Days and Grey Ways: Vancouver’s Default Colour

Some selected pictures of residential highrise development around the region, taken in the last month or so.  See anything in…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Early Signs of Life …

.. in a new West Davie highrise welcoming its first tenants.…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

The World Redesigned: Why we will still have gatherings

What will fill this: Since we’re never going back to the pre-Covid world anytime soon, will we still have large…
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Apr. 01, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Hastings Street Vancouver, 1945

  Hastings Street, 1945 from the Vancouver Archives. Diana Sampson provides some wonderful images from the archives on the Facebook…
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Mar. 16, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Absolute Gold~1961 School Students Tell Architect What’s Wrong with his “Parabolic” School Design

Here’s a classic from the BBC archives well worth a watch and a chuckle. When Trinity School opened in London…
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Feb. 18, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Icepick is back. Meeting Feb 18.

From the Downtown Waterfront Working Group: In 2015, Toronto-based developer Cadillac Fairview attempted to get approval for a 26 storey…
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Feb. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 4: Random Acts of Density

Stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland does a backgrounder on The Grand Bargain and what Vancouverites (City and Metro) should know about…

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