March 20th, 2021 — A sculpture of welded steel that has been stained and varnished called “North Face” by Peter Hide situated on the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University.
Category: Urban Landscape
Chess and cheese
March 16th, 2021 — A chess and cheese lunch at George Wainborn Park.
Under wraps
March 16th, 2021 — The tower under blue wraps is the Pacific Point Building at the corner of Homer and Drake Streets.
Pickup game
March 16th, 2021 — Pickup basketball games at David Lam Park.
Six years ago
March 16th, 2021 — Above is what it looks like today under the Howe Street on-ramp to the Granville Street Bridge at Beach Avenue and below is what it looked like six years ago.
The Keith Market
March 14th, 2021 — The Keith Market in the 300 block of West Keith Road, North Vancouver; closed for good behind a chain link fence.
Grassy fence
February 28th, 2021 — Chain link fence next to the baseball diamond at Chaldecott Park.
Welcome to Richmond
March 1st, 2021 — The skytrain on its way over the Fraser River to Richmond. Along the west side of the bridge is a bike lane and at each end there is a welcome sign; on the north it’s to Vancouver, on the south it’s to Richmond. Neither are pretty. When the skytrain extension to Richmond was proposed there was opposition to it being elevated; that it would destroy the ambience of Richmond. Geoff Plant, the local MLA and attorney general, was asked to comment. He said, “Ambience? Richmond doesn’t have any ambience”.
Almost gone
February 27th, 2021 — Faded mural of an old car at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Commercial Drive.
Pink door
February 27th, 2021 — Pink door at the back of a building on Charles Avenue at Victoria Drive.