Vancouver

this party just took a turn for the douche

April 18, 2013

Went to a bar tonight that used to be great, a neighbourhood bar in the old Arts Club Theatre. What happened? 14 sports TV screens happened, a contempo remodel, and all the clientele that comes with that stuff.

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Architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke

April 7, 2013

Architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke

A small selection of architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke. Trained as an architect at Carleton University, Jahnke also has a BFA in photography from Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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Artist George Norris (1928-2013), creator of Vancouver’s popular giant steel crab sculpture

March 17, 2013

Artist George Norris (1928-2013), creator of Vancouver’s popular giant steel crab sculpture

George Norris, the artist who made what is arguably Vancouver’s most famous piece of public art—a giant steel crab in front of the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium—has died in Victoria.  

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The largest clear-span wooden building in the world – Tillamook Air Museum

The largest clear-span wooden building in the world – Tillamook Air Museum

The largest clear-span wooden building in the world was built as a U.S. military air station hangar in 1942 to house six blimps. It is now the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon.

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The steady creep of sports bars across Vancouver

January 31, 2013

The steady creep of sports bars across Vancouver

From my friend Jonathan, who posted this Google Maps screenshot along with the assessment “No comment.”

It would please me to blame this sudden proliferation of sports bars on the damn Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

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RIP Waldorf Hotel, another Vancouver cultural hub killed by condo interests

January 9, 2013

RIP Waldorf Hotel, another Vancouver cultural hub killed by condo interests

 

This is a disaster. Vision Vancouver, are you really going to allow more speculative condo development to take out one of the last good mixed cultural venues in the city?

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Design & politics & newspapers who fire cartoonists for mocking pipeline companies

December 30, 2012

Design & politics & newspapers who fire cartoonists for mocking pipeline companies

Well it’s the last day of 2012, the end of another alarming year in a string of alarming years. These are not times to be proud of in Vancouver, in British Columbia or especially in Canada.

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