Chinatown Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/chinatown/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:30:30 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c. https://ounodesign.com/2014/10/14/heritage-hipster-settler-style-era-of-idle-no-more-and-chinatown-gentrification/ https://ounodesign.com/2014/10/14/heritage-hipster-settler-style-era-of-idle-no-more-and-chinatown-gentrification/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:30:30 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=16510
Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with permission

An abridged version of this essay has been published in the May/June 2015 issue of Briarpatch Magazine

I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as you are.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2014/10/14/heritage-hipster-settler-style-era-of-idle-no-more-and-chinatown-gentrification/feed/ 26 A friend put this captioned magazine page through my mailbox https://ounodesign.com/2014/05/29/antlers-in-design/ https://ounodesign.com/2014/05/29/antlers-in-design/#respond Thu, 29 May 2014 19:34:21 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=16929

This made me laugh quite hard.

Also, courtesy of the enjoyable fuckyournoguchitable tumblr: antlers, actual real taxidermy, fake taxidermy, steer skull and cardboard antlers.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2014/05/29/antlers-in-design/feed/ 0 Imminent demolition of 122 year old building in Vancouver’s old Japantown https://ounodesign.com/2013/12/03/demolition-heritage-building-vancouver-dtes/ https://ounodesign.com/2013/12/03/demolition-heritage-building-vancouver-dtes/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:02:47 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=16479

The frantic festival of demolition continues in Vancouver, a city whose demolition rate is double that of Toronto’s. And Toronto is no paragon of heritage either.

The City of Vancouver is attempting to force demolition of the 122 year-old building which belongs to the Ming Sun Benevolent Society.

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Everybody works but the vacant lot, Henry George as quoted by Fay Lewis

This is a parody artwork at Vancouver’s 221A Artist-Run Centre, parodying the “Micro Loft” building being erected next door to it in the current lightning-fast condo land rush taking place in Chinatown.

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Artwork by Martin Creed, installed on the Wing Sang building in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Artwork and building are owned by collector and condo marketer Bob Rennie. Photo from Kathy Stillwell.

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These photographs are from my husband grandparents’ house, a blue Edwardian two-storey that still stands in Strathcona, Vancouver’s oldest residential neighbourhood. The house is less than a block away from our studio and very close to where we both live.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/30/chan-family-house-in-1950s-vancouver/feed/ 4 These are the people in your neighborhood. https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/23/these-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/23/these-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood/#respond Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:11:17 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=1978

Yesterday a police officer came to my door and asked me if he and his team could use my backyard as a stakeout for something going down in the alleyway. Of course I said sure.

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