Vancouver's streetscapes have changed drastically in recentyears. New buildings representing current architectural trends aremixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes.Exploring Vancouver invites the reader to experience the city'scontinually evolving landscape in a readable, yet authoritative,guide.
Robin Ward, Ron Phillips, and Harold Kalman present the mostcomprehensive selection ever published of Vancouver's architecture-- modest and grand, historic and modern, attractive andnot-so-attractive. Most of the entries were chosen for architecturalreasons, but buildings of particular cultural, historical, or socialsignificance are also included.
In lively prose, the authors describe the style and tell the historyof each building. They include the full range of well-known Vancouverlandmarks from early Gastown and hidden Chinatown treasures to theMarine Building and many noteworthy examples of the extensive urbandevelopment of the past fifteen years.
Features:
- Official guidebook of the Architectural Institute of BritishColumbia
- Completely rewritten and redesigned
- Over 600 new photographs by Robin Ward
- Covers neighbourhoods in Vancouver and the North Shore
- Clearly marked maps of each area for walking or driving
- 534 illustrated entries representing old and new architecture
- Descriptions combine architectural, historical, and socialcommentary
- Illustrated guide to architectural styles
- Glossary of architectural terms
- Buildings and architects index
Awards
- 1994, Winner - Vancouver Heitage Award, City of Vancouver
Like his [Robin Ward's] prose, many of his photographs eschew the obvious, presenting not portraits of buildings but almost surreal studies that allude to their hidden qualities.
An informative visual feast of Vancouver's most interesting architecture. This pocket-sized guide will make any walk down Vancouver's streets a fascinating education in our history.
This new companion guide to the architecture of Vancouver is long overdue. For the unfamiliar and the discerning it makes good reading and is a healthy reminder of how rich an architectural fabric we have in this growing city. For the reader, this edition provides a better balance of information than previously available. There is a substantial focus on the work of the second half of this century -- here we see the origins and flowering of the West Coast Style, the architecture of social conscience, ten years of post modernist work, both inventive and frivolous.
Introduction
1. Gastown
2. Chinatown and Strathcona
3. Downtown East
4. Downtown West
5. Downtown South
6. The West End
7. False Creek South
8. Shaughnessy
9. The West Side
10. The University of British Columbia
11. South Vancouver
12. East Vancouver
13. North Vancouver
14. West Vancouver
Guide to Architectural Styles
Glossary
Area Maps
Bibliography
Indexes
