April 2nd, 2026 — Twenty two large trees were cut down next to UBC’s Place Vanier Residence to make way for new student housing. The housing isn’t going to be built where the trees were cut down, they are to be built a block or more away, but maybe you have to be an academic to understand these things.
Category: Vanishing Vancouver
Stumps
March 31st, 2026 — Trees at the corner of Burrard Street and Cornwell were cut down to make way for a bus stop at the Senakw housing development. Below, as they were on March 6th.
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Cottage
March 29th, 2026 — A small cottage built in the 1940’s on the west side of Vancouver is dwarfed by four multiplex units being built beside it.
Soon to be gone
December 12th, 2025 — Two very large houses in the 3400 block of West 41st Avenue will soon be demolished to make way for a retirement home.
Vancouver special
November 9th, 2025 — A new type of Vancouver special, the six-plex, goes up next to a craftsman bungalow built almost a 100 years ago on West 11th Avenue.
It’s tall
March 26th, 2024 — The almost finished condo tower at Broadway and Granville photographed from 16th Avenue is the first of many planed for the Broadway corridor. Eventually the mountains behind will disappear from view.
All that’s left
January 21, 2025 — The remains of the Dunsmuir Hotel which was demolished over the weekend. 
Dunsmuir Hotel demo
January 18th, 2025 — Demolition of the Dunsmuir Hotel at the corner of Dunsmuir Street and Richards Street.
Another one, dust
December 12th, 2024 — House at 3675 West 29th Avenue being demolished.
Oakridge
December 10th, 2024 — Houses in the 5500 block of Manson Street soon to be demolished and replaced with towers like those being built in the old Oakridge shopping center.