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Imminent demolition of 122 year old building in Vancouver’s old Japantown

LB — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:02:47 +0000

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.

Custom pendant lamp at Gudrun Restaurant, Steveston

LB — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:59:14 +0000

Beautiful lamp commissioned by my friend Patrick Tubajon, proprietor of gorgeous Gudrun Restaurant in Steveston, BC. Steveston is a historic and still operating fishing and cannery village in the mouth of the Fraser River, just half an hour S.

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Chuck Davis, 1935-2010

LB — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:30:45 +0000

Above: the superb book design on Davis’ often-reprinted books from the 1970s.

Chuck Davis died early this morning at age 75. Chuck was arguably Vancouver’s most well-known historian; certainly he was its best-loved historian for anyone who grew up in Vancouver in the 70s or 80s.

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La Mexicaine de Perforation, Paris

LB — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:02:37 +0000

These are the only two photographs I could find of a clandestine cinema temporarily located in the Paris Catacombs and accidentally discovered by the police in 2006 while on a training exercise.

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A-frame Maritime Museum by CBK Van Norman

LB — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:50:04 +0000

I’ve always loved this building. It’s part of the Vancouver Maritime Museum and was built in 1966 to house the icebreaker St. Roch. You can just see the top of the mast through the upper window.

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Remembrance Day

LB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:41:43 +0000

My grandfather landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day when he was 35 years old. He was a Canadian officer on loan to a British regiment, so he landed with the British on Sword Beach rather than with the Canadians on Juno.

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When bric-a-brac was part of a revolutionary politics

LB — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Vancouver curator Scott Watson’s essay Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos and Squats is part of the impressive and totally compelling Vancouver Art in the Sixties website project.

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2thewalls

LB — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:40:40 +0000

2thewalls is the closest thing on the internet to the much-missed and now cult-status Nest: Quarterly of Interiors. Finding 2thewalls is a bit like falling down the rabbit hole, and not just because reading it feels like deciphering text printed on a zebra crossing.

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Depth in surfaces – Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum

LB — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:32:35 +0000

Museum designed and built as if by archeological time. The Ningbo Historic Museum was designed by Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio. Photos by Iwan Baan, via archdaily.

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Militant Guild of Rural Tailors – Young Meagher

LB — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:17:38 +0000

Young Meagher’s “Militant Guild of Rural Tailors” is apparently a fashion line that doubles as a faux-museological collection of objects and textiles purportedly belonging to a revolutionary worldwide underground cult of rural tailors reaching back into early 19th C history.

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