January 27th, 2021 — I’m all for saving heritage houses but these three houses at 8th Avenue and Birch supposedly being “saved” by raising them on stilts and building a massive condo development underneath seems to be beyond the limits of common sense.
Category: Urban Landscape
Sole food
January 14th, 2021 — Sole Food Street Farms in the 200 block of West 1st Avenue.
Telephone pole
January 16th, 2021 — Next to the 4th Avenue off ramp from the Granville Street Bridge.
Many hands
January 14th, 2021 — Mural in the 100 block of West 4th Avenue; “Many hands make light work”.
Chocolate factory
February 6th, 2003 — Bains hand dipped chocolates at 155 East 8th Avenue.
Glass houses
December 21st, 2020 — Glass house dining at the Boatshed Restaurant at Ambleside Beach and below, glass house growing at UBC’s Horticulture building.
Monolith
December 4th, 2020 — High rise building in the west end of Vancouver, probably on Pacific Blvd at Thurlow Street, under a tarp while undergoing renovations.
Graffiti
December 3rd, 2020 — The concrete sea walls on the waterfront at the north foot of Balaclava Street have always been targets for graffiti artists. One house, below, seems to have dissuaded them with more conventional art.
General Gordon School
July 22nd, 2020 — Demolition of General Gordon School, Bayswater and 6th Avenue.
Ambleside Beach
November 14th, 2020 — Structure on Ambleside Beach, West Vancouver.