housing Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/housing/ Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:25:43 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan or DTES LAP https://ounodesign.com/2014/03/12/downtown-eastside-local-area-plan-or-dtes-lap/ https://ounodesign.com/2014/03/12/downtown-eastside-local-area-plan-or-dtes-lap/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:25:43 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=16693

The Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan or DTES LAP is a comprehensive plan for a significant area of downtown/East Vancouver. It goes before City Council this week, where Council seems likely to pass it despite significant opposition.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2014/03/12/downtown-eastside-local-area-plan-or-dtes-lap/feed/ 0 Kenneth Frampton on Aalto, Corbusier, detached houses, the suburbs &c. https://ounodesign.com/2011/06/27/kenneth-frampton/ https://ounodesign.com/2011/06/27/kenneth-frampton/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:51:18 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=12145

The video below, produced by Slow Home Studio in Calgary, Alberta, is a short, brilliant, unrehearsed lecture by renowned architect, architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton on the history of the detached house in our era.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2011/06/27/kenneth-frampton/feed/ 3 Unlimited Growth Increases the Divide: RIP George Riste https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/28/unlimited-growth-increases-the-divide-george-riste/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/28/unlimited-growth-increases-the-divide-george-riste/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:16:11 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=10774

This small residential hotel in downtown Vancouver was stubbornly saved from demolition by its amazing owner, the quietly determined George Riste. George resisted numerous attempts by BC Hydro to buy his building, continually asserting the rights of his tenants to remain exactly where they were.  

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/28/unlimited-growth-increases-the-divide-george-riste/feed/ 10 World Habitat Day 2010 https://ounodesign.com/2010/10/01/world-habitat-day-2010/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/10/01/world-habitat-day-2010/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:41 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=10313

Pierre Trudeau (white suit) entering Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre, UN-Habitat Conference on Human Settlements, 1976. Courtesy CBC. All rights reserved.

Happy World Habitat Day! I bet you didn’t know that the UN has declared October 1 World Habitat Day.

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