Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver opens its new campus. The 92-year-old institution relocates to a purpose-built facility designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects on the east side of downtown. This 26,700-sqm (290,000 sf) landmark building anchors regeneration of an industrial zone.
e-architect select what we feel are the key examples of Vancouver Buildings, BC. We cover completed buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across British Columbia. The focus is on contemporary British Columbia buildings.
Design: Olson Kundig, Architects. Tucked into a hillside in Kelowna, British Columbia, the design of the newest winery in the von Mandl Family Estates creates an intimate relationship between the topography of the land and a new gravity-flow winery.
Design: Leckie Studio – Canadian architecture award news. The Backcountry Hut Company was set up to assist both individuals and organizations to design and build low-cost easy to assemble holiday cabins.
Design: Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture. The abstracted shape of the corten, in conjunction with strategic boulder placement along the foreshore played an integral role in dissipating wave energy and ultimately, facilitating the deposition of sand to enhance foreshore and create habitat for flora and fauna.
Design: Leckie Studio Architecture + Design. Inspired by crystalline patterns found in frost, an irregular motif is developed for the water jet cut metal wall and ceiling panels. This pattern also references UYU’s logo and identity, playfully suggesting the store’s product: ice cream.
Design: Saucier + Perrotte architectes with HCMA. The site consists of a 20,240 sqm parcel of land located at an important university entry point. The building was thus designed to act as a gateway, engaging the community with an open, transparent and inviting ground floor.
Design: Keith Baker Design Inc. This residence on Vancouver Island was designed as a series of pavilions, nestled along the sunny shoreline of Lantzville on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This stunning home was an award-winner even while it was on the ‘drawing board’.
Design: Foster + Partners, architects. A 35-storey mixed-use tower in the heart of Vancouver. The building includes the first residential development to be completed by this architecture studio in North America
Design: James K Cheng, architect. A bold reinterpretation of luxury: Each Owner’s Suite offers 800 sqft of opulence with an Ico Parisi-inspired sofa and dining room table in the living room, a plush king-sized canopy bed, large walk-in closet and marble spa bathroom with deep soaker tub.
Design: Kengo Kuma & Associates, architects. Alberni by Kuma is a 43-storey residential tower at Alberni and Cardero designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for Westbank Projects Corp in Vancouver.
Design: Henriquez Partners Architects. The development features a 22-storey signature office tower in Vancouver BC, the first building in Canada built to have achieved the 2009 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum standard and a 47-storey residential tower targeting LEED Gold standard.
Design: office of mcfarlane biggar. The newly renovated and expanded bookstore on the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) main campus is proof that simple design interventions can have grand effects.
Design: Randy Bens Architect. The building is a very long, carved rectangle that captures a stunning westward view. The house was designed around the idea of a covered, exterior living space, which is open to the view and morning light through a glazed clerestory window band.
St James House in West Vancouver design by Randy Bens Architect, British Columbia: this new home in BC has been designed around the idea of two courtyards, using composite panels and stained cedar siding.
Design: Herzog & de Meuron – The Vancouver Art Gallery unveil Herzog & de Meuron’s conceptual design for a new museum building in downtown Vancouver.
The Mathers Residence, Vancouver, Canada – design by Eurohouse Construction – Vancouver contemporary residence, Canada house, Canadian architecture
Groveland House in Vancouver: contemporary residential building, British Columbia – design by Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses – BC development, Canada home
A new parallel-parking open carport was built off the lane, to preserve more of the back yard for a new landscaped garden and terrace. The house was wrapped in a new exterior skin with carefully placed windows, to connect all interior spaces to the front and back yards.
Architect: Arthur Erickson – as a young architect Arthur Erickson had an office in The Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver British Columbia. It was in a building, which also housed Purdy’s Chocolates. So it was not surprising when many years later he had the opportunity to design a triplex in the same area he called it “Choklit”.
