On a tiny street in West Vancouver, covering barely 2,000 square feet of floor space, this little home designed for two artists has had an outsized influence on Vancouver’s architecture and visual arts community. We take a look inside the loving preservation of a masterpiece that was almost destroyed.
TEXT Trevor Boddy For over a century, ‘architectural zoos’ have been permanent collections of architectural animals one example each from the leading species of designers. The most famous of these is the Weissenhofsiedlung, which in 1927 collected a range of modernist housing by Le Corbusier, Mies, Gropius, Hans Scharoun, Bruno Taut and others on a Stuttgart […]
The City of Vancouver has released a report calling for a major densification of Vancouver’s False Creek South. The proposal presented this week by staff to Vancouver City Council would triple the number of homes in this iconic Vancouver waterfront neighbourhood. Stretching along the south edge of False Creek from the Burrard to Cambie bridges, […]