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Generating Ideas: G M Shrum Generating Station at W A C Bennett Dam

ARCHITECT Rhone & Iredale Architects TEXT D’Arcy Jones In 1965, Vancouver was a frontier town in ways that seem far-fetched today. That year, BC Hydro hired Rhone & Iredale Architects to work on one of the largest dams in the world all because chairman Dr. Gordon Shrum liked a wooden sundeck they designed for his son. […]

In Memoriam - Peter Cardew - Spacing Vancouver

This past week, the Vancouver architecture community was saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Cardew, an architectural titan and longtime champion for design excellence in Vancouver. As a recipient of numerous awards over the years, including the RAIC Gold Medal in 2012, his career touched both professionals and academics alike in a half-century tenure that has influenced multiple generations of local architects. With a multi-storied career that includes his passing up a partnership at a prominent British architecture office at the age of 27, Peter chose instead to come to Vancouver in 1967, joining the office of Rhone & Iredale, where he would work alongside Richard Henriquez and Peter Busby, along with many others who have since gone on to found prominent Vancouver offices.

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Massey

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Massey Share We are saddened to mark the passing of Geoffrey Massey, age 96, on December 1, 2020. Massey worked in partnership with architect Arthur Erickson from 1963 to 1972. The duo created projects including the Simon Fraser University campus, the MacMillan Bloedel Building, and the University of Lethbridge’s University Hall, along with an initial plan for Robson Square. Erickson Family Collection. Arthur Erickson (left) & Geoffrey Massey (right) at Simon Fraser University, 1965 Geoffrey Massey’s father, Raymond, was an academy award-nominated actor. His uncle, Vincent, was Governor General of Canada, and headed a royal commission on the arts that resulted in the influential Massey Report. Geoffrey was a fourth-generation member of the family that founded farm equipment manufacturing company Massey-Harris, later Massey-Ferguson.

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