BC Place Renovations BC Lions football club is at present playing in an outside arena due to this face lift of BC Place .. It’s due to be finished sometime in 2011. Update.. It’s now finished Photo below. The new, $500-million retractable roof at BC Place stadium won’t be able to close when it’s raining or there are high winds. Officials say the retractable roof, which seemed an ideal fit for the West Coast’s rainy [...]
Time Top By Jerry Pethick Time Top is a piece about time traveling. The artist has created what looks like a 1940s-style space ship. The piece was submerged for two years so that the surface would become encrusted with sea life. The sculpture was given a low-level electrical charge to attract crustaceans to its surface. Its position on the shoreline encourages the idea that it has washed up from the depths. Artist Statement: “The inspiration [...]
Heritage Vancouver Vancouver Building Permits Database Project 1901-1921 The Heritage Vancouver Society has sponsored this building permits database as a community service to assist individuals with historical research pertaining to the City of Vancouver. Beginning in 2009, we began to prepare the data to serve as the basis for an online searchable database available to the public, aiming to launch in 2011. This entails manually comparing the originally transcribed data with the original books, ensuring [...]
Vancouver Playground In The Snow This Photograph was taken near the Second Beach Swimming pool at Stanley Park Vancouver. Photographing snowy landscapes is difficult because of exposure issues; show tends to come out looking flat and grey if you go by your in camera meter reading, I recommend over exposing by about one stop to compensate. This Vancouver playground covered in snow could be a thing of the passed if the Vancouver school board has [...]
Vancouver Snowy Skyline Vancouver Snowy Skyline after a mid March heavy snowfall. View is from my apartment roof, love the old time feel in this photograph.
Image of the sculpture ’217.5 ARC X13′ by the French artist Bernar Venet, shown as part of the Vancouver Sculpture Bienalle. The problem with art is that it always seems to come into our lives from out of nowhere, like a surprise party. One day you’re doing some very normal things – jogging the seawall, awaiting the arrival of your half-caff latte, thinking about sushi – when BAM, there it is. Something way out of [...]
Murray Hotel 1119 Hornby Street, Vancouver Murray Hotel, A cheap downtown Vancouver hotel in the evening light .. 1119 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC. Listed as new building from 1914 to 1919. Listed as RCMP Barracks in 1920. Level B Heritage – Significant Represents good examples of a particular style or type, either individually or collectively; may have some documented historical or cultural significance in a neighborhood. Another example of a beautiful early 20th century Vancouver [...]
From my apartment roof just before a storm passed through
