Winners of The Mixing Middle competition, presented by the Vancouver Urbanarium Society, have been announced. The group launched the competition to generate mixed-use designs for four Metro Vancouver communities: Surrey, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, and Vancouver. The competition included an overall winner and runners-up, decided by a panel of architects, planners, and an entrepreneur, in addition […]
The Vancouver Urbanarium Society has launched a new competition to generate ideas fro mixed-use housing for the next generation. Following its earlier “Missing Middle” competition for new residential concepts, the new “Mixing Middle” calls on designers to enhance community vitality by proposing ways to add mixed-use functionality into residential neighbourhoods. Existing single-family neighbourhoods need to densify […]
Time to diversify our home choices and styles. Here are some winning examples.
Scot Hein is an adjunct professor in the master of urban design program at UBC. He was previously the senior urban designer with the City of Vancouver. SHARES Craft beer tastes better. Apply its lessons to how we build affordable homes and liveable neighbourhoods.
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Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 per cent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly produced little experimentation with a reliance on traditional formulas. Beer was expensive, and weak, made with minimal hops and large amounts of corn or rice. The market imposed a reality of bland lagers on purchasers.