Agent Will

This is great news!  I am a big supporter of laneway housing concepts having seen what some have been able to achieve for affordable living in small footprints.  The biggest obstacle has always been city permits and getting those in power to see the solution.  On the downside, these properties will only be permitted to […]

This is cool.  Very cool.  Plans and schemes for what we will do with BC Place and the new art gallery have passed a city council vote.  We’re getting a new retractable roof (to be closed 80% of the time?) and a new waterfront art gallery.   We’re also getting some more mixed use towers (office […]

Shannon Paterson has one of the busiest and maybe most depressing jobs over at CTV news these days.  She gets to report on holes in the ground.  Big holes.  Holes that one day may have been worth up to $500 million but now lie as evidence that the market got way ahead of itself.
Let us […]

Well they’ve done and gone announced that the big pillow on the creek (ie BC Place) will be getting a new roof in time for the Olympics.  As many of you know this, the largest of all of Vancouver’s arenas, while completed in 1983 was built with Expo 86 in mind.  It was, at the […]

We sure do have a lot of cranes in the city, what with some thirteen alone helping to raise the Millennium Water/Olympic Village (the largest project in North America right now) as well as several other projects. One has just been removed at Shangri-La which is probably a big relief to what is still […]

Striking headline, isn’t it? You better sit down for this one. Imagine a private, for profit organization better known for household furniture (easily identifiable household furniture, I might add) getting in on the housing game. That’s not difficult is it? Now imagine that this mega-corp had a deeply passionate corporate philosophy […]

One thing the rest of the world seems to have on us is the mixed or dual use property.  I’m talking about commercial fronts with residential above or behind.  You see these often in England and Europe where bakeries, cafes, pubs, retail, and the like have owner operators who live above and enjoy a commute […]

“New housing is marketed so much like a product. It became this comodification.”
Strong way to start to your documentary about two Toronto Architects who looked to bucked every trend and fought their way through the city and with neighbours to build a greener and smarter home just for themselves. It’s a home built […]

Foster and Partners, the famed architects famous for elevating the art of design, are finally putting their mark on downtown Vancouver (and North America, for that matter) with this very unique luxury highrise designed by lead architect Nigel Dancey.
It is also a very Green development. Features include:

The building will generate its own power […]

 
In my line of business, I see a lot of projects and talk to a lot of people. I have clients who have varying degress of interest in projects and design for the latest buildings. Some are serious buyers well qualified, others are just merely curious about what is going on. All […]