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Jan. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

B.C. Place Redux

From a glance at the headlines in the newspaper boxes, the B.C. Place replacement story has legs. PT reader Ron…
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Jan. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

Grand Opening: Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park

I predicted a few months ago that the new sculpture park on the Seattle waterfront may be the next best…
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Jan. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Resurrection in Saudi Arabia

Go out and get a copy of the Saturday, January 13th Globe and Mail.  There’s a story in it that…
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Jan. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Link-up: Beyond Robson

PT reader Dan F recommends the Beyond Robson blog: “a worthy endeavor that could use some more press.”  If you…
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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. 12, 2007 / Gordon Price

Stanley Park Ambivalence

Don Buchanan cycled through the park a few days after the first big windstorm and caught this shot of the…
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Jan. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Future of B.C. Place

What to do with this concrete white elephant? [And why isn’t there ever any accountability for those who promoted and…
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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

The Daily Alarm

More evidence, here in The Independent, that the passivity which characterizes our current attitude to climate change is dissipating fast…
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Jan. 10, 2007 / Gordon Price

Chinese-style Maple

Architects in China: a cautionary tale.…
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Jan. 09, 2007 / Gordon Price

Portland's Living Room

Just in: a response to Price Tags 90 from Brent Belsher. Normally I’d put it in the comments section, but…
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Jan. 09, 2007 / Gordon Price

No More Indifference

This shouldn’t be necessary.  But I’m going to acknowledge that the new federal Environment minister John Baird at least made…
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Jan. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Boggling blogs

Wanna see how many blogs there are, just in Vancouver?  Or at least the number that urbanvancouver aggregates. Go here,…
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Jan. 07, 2007 / Gordon Price

Price Tags 90 – Mutual Admirers, Portland and Vancouver

  Hot off the computer: Price Tags 90.  You can download it here. Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, B.C. may be the poster children…

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