Vancouver Photography

[zerokarma]

Awesome pictures :tup:

[Delirium]

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[excel]

love em.

[Delirium]

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[SpinoC66]

amazing~!

[The Jabroni]

Yeah, I just came back from there, and I already miss the place!

Awesome photos you guys.

[murman]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/420286417_f31b5a6645_o.jpg

Fab view, and depressed person. Was this picture taken from a wikipedia post regarding juxtaposition?

[Mike K.]

SSP British Columbia poster

As some of you may know, SSP's next poster is focused on British Columbia and will include Vancouver/Lower mainland/Victoria/Kelowna and Nanaimo buildings.

Such being the case, our illustrators require good photos from which to work off of to create as detailed drawings as they can. One of our illustrators is currently working on Bentall 3/4 and has hit a snag requiring some clear photos of the base of the towers (each tower) and any "detail" photos, either from a distance showing the sides of the towers or from directly below at street-level.

If anyone has any images of B3/4 ready to go or is willing to snap some really quickly that would be much appreciated!

[Delirium]

Fab view, and depressed person. Was this picture taken from a wikipedia post regarding juxtaposition?

no.. from flickr.com

here's a few more

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/309330120_8626c92733_b.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/407575940_ab34ca053e_b.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/434501022_3f64fc1cb6_o-1.jpg

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http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/421812112_ee0de1ab23_o.jpg

[vanman]

Check out these awesome photos taken by Winterhood at SSC

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/020.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/015.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/021.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/022.jpg

[excel]

Great shots.

[Yume-sama]

I love all of the pictures. Is it even possible for a city to look better?

[Delirium]

great night pics!

more randomness from flickr.com

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/90523203_b055e519f9_b.jpg

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[raggedy13]

Amazing pics everyone! I don't know how you keep managing to find more and more awesome pics Delirium, but it's much appreciated.

Here are just a few pics I took during my lunch break yesterday. Unfortunately they are nothing comparable to all those impressive pics already posted.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/May%2011%202007/100_7441.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/May%2011%202007/100_7446.jpg

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http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/May%2011%202007/100_7479.jpg

[Delirium]

those are great! especially that last one. thanks for sharing

[SJTOKO]

[QUOTE=Overground;2630722]Ya all the palms are still right where they ought to be(they can handle to -15c). There was no problems with the wind storms either that I know of.

QUOTE]

Correction.. those palms can handle -30.. they can grow in Minnisota, Switzerland England, Ireland.. all over the place... I want to plant on in Saint John NB... lol... it might survive... the average winter temperature is -3.. I doubt it though... I just bought one for my Aunt in South Jersey.. should grow there no problem...

[squeezied]

i recently bought a new cell a few days ago and what better way to try out the 2mp camera than to take pics of shangri-la and its environs? hehe... for 2mp, the pics arent that bad. so anyways, heres my ramshackle photos..

http://penguindude.250free.com/DSC00159.JPG
http://penguindude.250free.com/DSC00160.JPG
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[excel]

Lots of great photos. Thanks.

[204]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/499179979_ca8a2bfc2b_o.jpg

[Alva360]

Awesome pics guys! Vancouver is indeed a beautiful city. Does anyone have pictures of Commercial Drive or Granville Island? Those two area's are one of my favorites. It's been a while since I've been to Vancouver. I was wondering how things look now, see if there's been any changes. ;)

:cheers:

[SFUVancouver]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8200/commercialdriveatcharleon3.jpg

Commercial Drive last summer.

[subdude]

Lots on flickr http://flickr.com/groups/commercialdrive/

[phesto]

Alright, time for some new ones (from flickr):

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/3073/44940887449a36a5a85oqj6.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3975/461318387fbf5389896bov9.jpg

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http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4655/476281485da670f83f6bqc4.jpg

[excel]

Nice ones.

[Delirium]

great finds phesto! that one shot from The Lookout is so crisp..

[Delirium]

here's some more from flickr.com

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/396239352_384e1f94fb_o.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/229253267_ddbc07f84e_b.jpg

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[Waterlooson]

Wow!

[SFUVancouver]

I've never seen anything like that last shot before. Definately a unique angle.

[Hed Kandi]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/384705714_0d2de5e187_o.jpg


WOW !

[excel]

That last pic of the bridge is amazing. Thanks for posting.

[Delirium]

anytime :D here's a couple more i forgot to include..

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/276619580_3fd50d5056_b.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/110135683_9e9ae4b965_b.jpg

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http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/454569517_eda343046f_b.jpg

wasn't that long ago that vancouver looked like this!
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/88124463_bef8a678b5_o.jpg

[sukh_n]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/533532396_2963365ad6_b.jpg

Amazing pic.
You can see the lightning in the top right hand corner.

[SFUVancouver]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/533851250_2c82efa6f8_b.jpg

Anyone notice something odd about this one?
?eno siht touba ddo gnihtemos eciton enoynA

As always Delirium, great finds! That last one still blows me away. I was a delegate at the UN World Urban Forum here last year and in one of the large plenary sessions Judy Rogers was telling the "Vancouver Story"TM and showed the before and after photos of downtown to illustrate the transformation of the city since the last time the UN was in town for the original Habitat Fourm in 1976. When the before photo melted into the after the three or four thousand people in the room let out a collective gasp. It was one of those small once-in-a-lifetime moments that you are thoroughly glad to have experienced, the whole conference was like that really. It was pretty surreal to be in a break-out session with half a dozen people whose initial introductions included the Kazakhstan Minister of Economic Development, the President of the UK's Royal Town Planning Commission... it just didn't end. Here are the photos I'm talking about http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/fade/fade.htm

[excel]

^The traffic is on the wrong side of the road. What is going on?

[agrant]

The pic was just flipped in post production... That, or the holliday they call "Drive on the Left Day." :D

[squeezied]

yea look at the TD and HYATT sign

[Delirium]

Anyone notice something odd about this one?
?eno siht touba ddo gnihtemos eciton enoynA

As always Delirium, great finds! That last one still blows me away. I was a delegate at the UN World Urban Forum here last year and in one of the large plenary sessions Judy Rogers was telling the "Vancouver Story"TM and showed the before and after photos of downtown to illustrate the transformation of the city since the last time the UN was in town for the original Habitat Fourm in 1976. When the before photo melted into the after the three or four thousand people in the room let out a collective gasp. It was one of those small once-in-a-lifetime moments that you are thoroughly glad to have experienced, the whole conference was like that really. It was pretty surreal to be in a break-out session with half a dozen people whose initial introductions included the Kazakhstan Minister of Economic Development, the President of the UK's Royal Town Planning Commission... it just didn't end. Here are the photos I'm talking about http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/fade/fade.htm

i can understand that. the transformation has been incredible.
here's a good side-by-side

1982
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/vcs1982_073.jpg

and 20 years later
]http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/492008255_aef1ce9e7b_o.jpg

i can't think of anywhere else where this many buildings were built in such a short timeframe and area. i know a lot people complain of the uniformity of our condos but i can't imagine what downtown would look like if there weren't such strict guidelines.

the only one that comes to mind is dubai and quite frankly, i think what they've done sucks. sure they're tall but from a livability standpoint, it fails terribly - and it's butt ugly. i know city council can be anal about views and heights and distance between buildings etc but you know what, it's a hell of a lot better than this!

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/CH_Shots_07.jpg

[vanman]

^ I completely agree with you. Many buildings in Dubai, especially those buildings, are completely anti-urban. They are soulless and uniform with little to no interaction with the street.They virtually all sit on top of window less, square podiums that discourage street life. Of course there are some neighborhoods better than others such as the original downtown Dubai or the first creek development (that was modeled after Vancouver's false creek).

[SFUVancouver]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6538/palmjuremiahdubaiuglystii6.jpg

[androo3]

Looks like Bagdad! Don't get me wrong I do like the look of those buildings but only a few could look nice that many just looks like a shanty town. I expect tanks to roll down the street and are those gun towers on the buildings.

[agrant]

Errr.... which one is my apartment again???

[Hed Kandi]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/CH_Shots_07.jpg

Is that Lego ?

[subdude]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6538/palmjuremiahdubaiuglystii6.jpg

holy ... wow ...

...someone once complained about Vancouver architecture as being nothing more than "goddam piles of building material" but I think Dubai has more than taken that cake.

[SpongeG]

some pics i took today

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spongeg/DSC01983.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spongeg/DSC01980.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spongeg/DSC01998.jpg

i tried to zoom in on metrotown lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spongeg/DSC01999.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spongeg/DSC02000.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spongeg/DSC02001.jpg

[SunCoaster]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/yvr/CH_Shots_07.jpg

:previous: Actually I think 2 or 3 of these monsters would look great in Vancouver! I think the architecture is good and the sandstone facade would provide a nice contrast to all the glass boxes going up in Vancouver ... take a look @ a tower like 'Grace' ... what makes it stand out? ... answer it's not your typical glass box ...

[SunCoaster]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6538/palmjuremiahdubaiuglystii6.jpg

:previous: OMG not in my worst nightmares would I wish this project on any self respecting city ... let alone Vancouver ... the whole project looks like a 2007 version of the mass inner city housing projects in the large northeast cities USA from the 1950's to 1970's's ... and all those have since turned into mega gettos and a lot are being torn down and redeveloped .... :slob: :yuck: :koko:

[squeezied]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6538/palmjuremiahdubaiuglystii6.jpg

vertical sprawl... gross!

[Hed Kandi]

vertical sprawl... gross!

Horizontal!

[Delirium]

:previous: Actually I think 2 or 3 of these monsters would look great in Vancouver! I think the architecture is good and the sandstone facade would provide a nice contrast to all the glass boxes going up in Vancouver ... take a look @ a tower like 'Grace' ... what makes it stand out? ... answer it's not your typical glass box ...

if we had a couple of those in vancouver, they would blend in perfectly in yaletown/downtown south given all the beige in the area. there are no glass boxes around grace. in fact, aside from its copper peaked roof, grace doesn't stand out at all. it's just another beige building in a sea of beige..

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/oct2gon/370569667_50519b75ef_b.jpg?t=1181403111

[mr.x]

hideous....is that where the sand people live? could be a perfect location to film future episodes of Star Wars.

[deasine]

^ Lol

[Delirium]

there's always more :tup:

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/175912977_dbb22eccba_b.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/vancouver_2007/162830246_b1fc55323b_b.jpg

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[mr.x]

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I'm guessing this is the Canada Day fireworks barge, already anchored in Coal Harbour.


great pics.

[natelox]

No, the barge is stored near Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. It is easily visible from the Sea Bus.

[mr.x]

No, the barge is stored near Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. It is easily visible from the Sea Bus.

so that picture was taken in the last week near Lonsdale Quay on Seabus?

They didn't get permission to launch fireworks in City of Vancouver waters so they're doing it farther away from the Coal Harbour shore, and they've said they will shoot higher fireworks so more people can see them.

[j4893k]

They didn't get permission to launch fireworks in City of Vancouver waters so they're doing it farther away from the Coal Harbour shore, and they've said they will shoot higher fireworks so more people can see them.

kind of a discrepency considering the city is helping to fund the event. what was the problem with launching from coal harbour? did the port authority have any stipulations?

[mr.x]

kind of a discrepency considering the city is helping to fund the event. what was the problem with launching from coal harbour? did the port authority have any stipulations?

If they launched from Coal Harbour, everybody would be gathering there....they claim it would be too crowded, which is why Canada Day fireworks were cancelled after 2003. Now that they are launching further away and with higher fireworks, they will be seen from more vantage points thus people won't be crowding at one specific location.

[mr.x]

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[SFUVancouver]

Hello everyone,

I've never posted any photos to date because I haven't owned a digital camera. All that's changed and I'm now the proud owner of a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ2K! It's got a 28mm wide-angle lens, 10x optical zoom, and 6.1 megapixel CCD. Throw in a 2 gig memory card and a neoprene case and I'm a photography machine.

Disclaimer I'm not a photographic machine. I haven't taken pictures in years, I've never had a digital camera before, and I've only had it a day. I'm nowhere near certain of how to get the most out of it yet, nor was my first day out ideal for photography with its overcast sky and odd light. I've resized the images down to 1024x768 from their native 2816x2112. With all that said, please enjoy my first photographic collection.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1505/vcecconstructionjune120xd1.jpg
Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion construction, June 12.

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Fairmont Pacific Rim construction site with Marine Building, Shaw, and others in background, June 12.

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Fairmont Pacific Rim construction, June 12.

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Two Harbour Green construction, June 12.

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Sapphire construction with The Melville in the background, June 12.

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Melville copper awnings looking good and Hotel Loden still under construction, June 12.

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The Ritz and The Flatiron construction, June 12.

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Shangri-La construction looking East, June 12.

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Shangri-La constuction looking West, June 12. I omitted a North elevation by mistake.

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Espana has added a third crane today, June 12.

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Progress on the Carrall Street Greenway public realm redesign, June 12.

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Woodwards construction, June 12.

[mr.x]

^ great shot of the convention centre and shangri-la....love it.

[deasine]

Good choice! Panasonic Lumix! =D

[mr.x]

how much was it?

[vitc]

Awesome photos SFU!! Thanks a bunch! Keep it going...

[excel]

Great photos!

[Delirium]

nice work SFU! great to have another photographer here.
the base of the melville is fantastic. they did an excellent job.

[Delirium]

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[deasine]

^oh I love the last shot... thanks

[vanman]

Delirium, get a job with Tourism Vancouver already.:tup:

[Delirium]

ha! i should. have you seen the pictures they use on their website? they're like 10 years old!

[vanman]

I never even thought about that but you're right, I swear some their shit is from the late 80s

[Delirium]

here's a pretty good aerial shot taken last week.
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[IntotheWest]

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Very nice shots...it's been almost a year since I left Van, and at times I'm missing it.

Is this picture from the Fairmont? It looks soooo familiar (my part-time home for the best part of 2 years)...or, it's that bird sitting on the ledge. Sooo many mornings waking to those birds sitting there at 6am poking on the window and "chatting" :)

[Coldrsx]

i have a request...can someone get me shots along west georgia from say just west of shangrila down to stanley park on the south side of the road...

i need images of the streetscape in front of george, etc etc...

thanks in advance.

[Delirium]

^ i may have some. i just need to go dig for them. see what i can find.

IntotheWest - yes, that pic is from hotel vancouver. i had a similar experience when i lived temporarily at the electra and waking up to a seagull in the window.

[204]

Love this perspective....

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[SFUVancouver]

All of these photos were taken by me on June 29th, 2007. The light was phenomenal and everything looked fresh from having been drenched in a summer downpour an hour or so earlier.

Two Harbour Green construction progress taken from Harbour Green Park.
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The Melville from Georiga and Bute. It sure turned out to be a good looking tower in my opinion.
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It didn’t take long for Starbucks to show up. Starbucks represents a pretty reliable index of an area’s economic health. If there are plenty of Starbucks then it is likely doing well.
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Hotel Loden under construction. All that copper is new since the last time I was down that way.
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Sapphire and Hotel Loden from W Pender and Bute.
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Sapphire construction from W Pender and Bute.
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Sapphire and Ritz construction from W Pender.
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Ritz and Flatiron construction.
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Ritz construction progress from W Pender.
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Ritz construction progress from Alberni and Bute.
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Progress on the Flatiron. It is a much smaller building than I had expected. I am still not sure what the big gap to the left will be. Perhaps they will build the podium later? They likely need that space for staging the forms and other elements of the tower.
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Pender Street “construction precinct”. (bonus shot of one of the new electric trolley buses)
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Shangri-La Northeast corner.
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Shangri-La Northwest corner.
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Shangri-La Southeast corner.
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Shangri-La elevation.
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Shangri-La hotel balcony edge details.
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Shangri-La hotel railing detail and dirty windows.
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Shangri-La podium.
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The Coastal Church that Westbank Properties paid to restore as part of the development package to build the Shangri-La.
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Demolition work on 1133 West Georiga (Turning Tower/Vancouver’s Turn/Ritz-Carlton)
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The expanded Centerm container terminal handling two container ships simultaneously. This was the end goal for Centerm that warranted the $200+ million dollar upgrade Ports Dubai World, through P&O Ports World, put into it upon its purchase.
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Just look at how many cranes are in the Eastern part of the downtown peninsula? Development certainly is moving East to some extent.
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Burrard Building reflecting Cathedral Place. Burrard Building was Vancouver’s first building in the modernist international style. It was built in 1957 and I still think it looks like a million bucks.
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Demolition work has begun on Jameson House. As an interesting aside, the building beside the Jameson House site was built for a French company called Credit Foncier, which was the financing arm of the public development company tasked with creating Paris’ grand boulevards and iconic mansard roofed apartment blocks. Baron Hausmann was tasked to redefine Paris for the modern age with grand boulevards flanked by tall, grand apartment blocks. The market was not prepared to yield the scale or volume of development envisioned for these boulevards so Hausmann set up a financing company to raise capital from both the business elite and everyday citizens throughout France, Western Europe, and the Western World. The Credit Foncier building in Vancouver would have been built after Paris’ boulevards were completed in time for the 1889 World’s Fair but by that point Credit Foncer was a powerful merchant bank and we got a handsome building out of it.
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Harbour Green Park and an in-progress Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre Expansion Project (VCCEP)
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VCCEP construction from Western approach.
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VCCEP construction from Eastern approach.
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VCCEP construction taken from Canada Place.
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VCCEP construction behind glazing test box for the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel and Residences. (Vancouver must keep the blue glass and opaque spandrel manufacturers in business)
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Construction continues on the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel and residences. I figure another month and it should be above ground. It will also mark the last time the at-grade portion of SkyTrain will be visible from the new viaduct streetgrid above it. I still remember when SkyTrain was at grade in the open air for two or three blocks before entering the tunnel.
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The Cielo tower is pretty much done, save for the internal fit-out and the imminent opening of Urban Fare. It sure is shiny.
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Coal Habour along Cordova St looking East. Cielo is the second tower on the right.
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West Hastings at Jervis looking West towards the Bayshore Lands precinct.
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West Georgia looking West towards Stanley Park through the Triangle West precinct.
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Commercial Drive SkyTrain Station with a Rocky Mountaineer passenger train rumbling by and a Mk.II Skytrain car overhead.
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[SFUVancouver]

double post

[ckkelley]

Thanks for putting all the work into taking these great pics!

:tup:

[SunCoaster]

Wow thanks for all the pics ... Greattttttttttttt stuff :tup:

Any chance of taking a series of pics of downtown from Granville Island and/or Kits Beach plus from the southend of the Cambie Street Bridge and/or Science World? Please and thank you ...

BTW ... does anyone have pics they could post of the 'old' Westend? (eg. Beach Avenue, Pacific Blvd, Denman Street, lower Robson Street etc)

[deasine]

Wow overwhelming amount of beautiful shots. I'll probs go to Granville island on Monda since i have to see a friend =D maybe i'll snap a few

[mr.x]

incredible pics, thx!!!!!

[Baro]

3 layers of trains, that's amazing!!!!

[Coldrsx]

great tour thanks!

I cant believe nice melville turned out...

[gumgum]

That's it! You've given me the bug. I'm on the ferry to Vancouver as soon as I can.

Awesome series of pics!:worship:

[officedweller]

Great pics! Thanks.

BTW - The Burrrad Building was reclad in the early 90s - stripping it of its "international style" curtain wall - think Lever Building in NYC. The original curtain wall was striped - much like the proportions of the original curtain wall of the old BC Hydro (Electra) Building (they changed the proportions with the Electra reclad too - making the spandrels shorter and the vision glass taller).

This pic from the BCMoMo site and BC Archives show the original cladding for the Burrard Building (middle left pic).

http://www.docomomobc.org/images/comm.jpg http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_27/i_27909.gif

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[SFUVancouver]

Thanks Officedweller for the info on the Burrard Building.

A friend and I took a walk and I brought along my camera so now I have a handful of new photos to share. These were taken by me on July 2nd.

Harbour Green Park and a portion of the Seawall in Coal Harbour, downtown Vancouver. On Canada Day, July 1st, there were fireworks out in Burrard Inlet and Harbour Green Park was the preferred viewing location. It is always hard to judge crowds but a newspaper said attendance was 150,000 for the Coal Harbour component of the fireworks celebration. I would guess that there were several thousand people in the park and who knows about many watching from the Seawall and other locations around the harbour. It was a pleasant experience, though it certainly wasn’t on the scale of the Celebration of Light which attracts as many as half a million a night for four nights.
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These three photos are of the Mole Hill housing co-operative in the West End neighbourhood of downtown Vancouver. It is an entire city block of old Edwardian and Victorian homes that were saved and beautifully restored. Many of the houses now contain multiple dwellings and there is a range of options for different household sizes and mobility needs. Of particular interest is the traffic-calmed alley (last photo) that is barely recognizable when compared to most alleys in the city. I have been told that there was a real knock-down, drag’em-out fight to get the City of Vancouver’s Engineering department to agree to the proposed alley configuration. Everything seems to have worked itself out now and the Engineering Department has got themselves a working laboratory to gauge how such an unconventional laneway will hold up to use over time.
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Progress on the Pacific Boulevard boulevard. That isn’t a typo. The absurd original six to seven-lane Pacific Boulevard lacked a median and is now being scaled down to a much more sensible four to five lanes, I would imagine with bike lanes in each direction. The road was widened in the early 1980s to convey crowds traveling to and from BC Place stadium and at the time, with no mass transit alternative, the expectation was that everyone would arrive exclusively by car. So ends an era of exclusively automobile-oriented planning in another section of Vancouver.
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In addition to the narrow central median, a second median will separate on-street parking on the south side of the boulevard from through traffic. This is both a reflection of a desire to make the street more pedestrian scaled, it is currently as wide as the region's largest highway, and to reduce road capacity in light of declining vehicle use. Despite adding tens of thousands of new residents to the downtown core, there are now more than 90,000 people living downtown, the number of vehicle trips has been steadily falling. In their place is a dramatic rise in pedestrian and transit trips, and cycling. From 1994 to 2004 the City claims the number of vehicle trips fell 10% city-wide, vehicle trips entering downtown by 7%, and vehicle trips within downtown by 10%. Walking is up 44% city-wide during the same time frame and walking trips now account for 65% of all trips downtown and 27% of trips to downtown. Cycling is up 180% city-wide to 50,000 trips a day and transit is up 20% to about 330,000 trips a day within the City of Vancouver. All of these figures are from the City of Vancouver's Transportation Plan Ten-Year Update.

The proposed downtown Vancouver streetcar will eventually travel along the inner through lane once that service is up and running some time in the next decade. The Pacific Boulevard section is slated to be phase 2.5. Phase 0 will connect Granville Island with the Canada Line subway, the emerging Southeast False Creek/Olympic Village neighbourhood and Scienceworld/SkyTrain. Phase 1 will continue the line through Chinatown and Gastown and terminate at the Waterfront Station multi-modal transit hub that ties in cross harbour ferry, commuter rail, buses, and it is the northern terminus of the SkyTrain network, including the under-construction Canada Line subway expansion. Phase 2 will connect Waterfront station to Stanley Park by way of Coal Harbour. Phase 0 is seeking funding and the City of Vancouver has indicated that it considers it a major transportation priority, though decididly behind the extension of the Millennium SkyTrain Line along the Broadway corridor and out to the University of British Columbia. The bus rapid transit line that plies this route is already well beyond capacity and moves 60,000 people daily.


It is an observation of mine that the more one is out and about observing a city, the greater the likelihood you will come across bizarre sights that exist for only brief periods of time. I happened to find a Pepsi machine in the middle of a side street in Yaletown, a block over from Urban Fare and the Roundhouse Community Centre (second photo).
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This is the Yaletown Park part of the Yaletown Park residential project. I’m not sure what to make of it yet. It needs to weather and it needs some people. The Starbucks that is opening should help somewhat with the people but I don’t know what people will do at the park. The benches are nice but they’re at the sides and made of metal. The cobbles are interesting, certainly a departure from poured concrete or pre-cast cement pavers, let alone grass. I’ll hold off my own judgment for a year to see how it turns out.
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The station box for the Yaletown RAV/Canada Line station. I haven’t been by in a while and I was surprised to see the steel bracing. I deliberately violated the “no pedestrians on bridge” rule as a quiet protest over the bridge's lack of consideration for pedestrians.
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A shot of the emerging Coopers Quay precinct by Concord Pacific taken from the Cambie Street Bridge. The Seawall component of the build out appears to nearly be complete and I’m looking forward to it being opening soon. I don’t have a picture, but the Plaza of Nations sure looks strange without the glass space frame. I never realised how much the space frame tied the space together, nor did I realise how ugly I found the buildings flanking it to be on their own.
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The last shot looks back at part of the Yaletown neighbourhood. The amount of surface parking that still exists is amazing and underscores the point that the final build-out of Yaletown is still some ways off, despite the breakneck pace of construction over the last decade plus.
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[officedweller]

BTW - compare the Burrrard Building's orginal cladding with the Shell Oil Building's cladding (site of 1133 West Georgia):

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1107/606369207_26ec49489e.jpg

The Uniglobe Building at Pender & Bute was probably one of the last with this international style of cladding - but it too was reclad a couple of years ago. Pics gathered from Global Air Photos (2203 and 2007 could be the same, with different lighting, but I think I recall it be reclad again?). Note the common feature of the offset elevator core in each of these buildings (I'll bet fire code escape distances now prevent buidlings with offset cores).

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The building on West Georgia with the Lasik centre is a nice international style building from the 60s or 70s. After that, the 70s went to brutalist concrete facades, brick facades and precast concrete and terrazzo facades.

This is the Yaletown Park part of the Yaletown Park residential project. ..

Would have been nice if the tree planters were raised with an edge you could sit on - i.e. like the circular Expo 86 planters.

The station box for the Yaletown RAV/Canada Line station. I haven’t been by in a while and I was surprised to see the steel bracing.

They had lots of delays there with soft soils. Plus flanking parking garages onboth sides probably means they could not tie back very far with anchor rods.

The last shot looks back at part of the Yaletown neighbourhood. The amount of surface parking that still exists is amazing and underscores the point that the final build-out of Yaletown is still some ways off...

Keep your eye on these parcels. Concord had originally proposed office space for these two sites (flanking the Smithe offramp) when the commercial zoning was swapped with the Spectrum site. Concord has since reapplied for residential on the site (according to signs posted).

[deasine]

I'm sure Concord will always push for more residential, a slim chance that will happen though. Vancouver is now trying to PROTECT and INCREASE commercial space around the Downtown peninsula.

I got a couple of shots from Granville Island at 12:00 again with my cell (didn't attned to go to the island today). But too bad it wasn't very nice weather, only got really sunny when I got back home =(

Hmm... turned out really blury. But w/e. Shot of the Granville Island Public Market [very busy during lunch hours]
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Aqua Bus: Yaletown
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Aqua Bus: Sea Wall & Recreation/False Creek Flats
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Aqua Bus: Yaletown
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Aqua Bus: Future site of Olympic Village
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Granville Island: Yaletown
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Granville Island: Many boat houses
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Granville Island: From the Park overlooking False Creek (at the hotel area)
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Granville Island: random shot
http://members.shaw.ca/clauf/island/DSC00540.JPG

Granville Island: there's still that concrete place here
http://members.shaw.ca/clauf/island/DSC00541.JPG

Granville Island: the Granville St. Bridge ontop
http://members.shaw.ca/clauf/island/DSC00543.JPG

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[deasine]

Continued:

Granville Island: overlooking Burrard St. Bridge (shot near Pacific Culinary Arts)
http://members.shaw.ca/clauf/island/DSC00546.JPG
http://members.shaw.ca/clauf/island/DSC00547.JPG

I apologize for the low picture quality as I had to compress ALL OF THEM before I posted here =( And not very good weather (and of course a not very good cell phone camera)

[mr.x]

great shots SFU and deasine, thx. i like what they did with Pacific Boulevard and the depth of the Yaletown Station pit is impressive.

[excel]

Great photos.

[jmcgoblue]

Such a beautiful city, I'm jealous! :)

A friend of mine moved there from Atlanta a few months ago, he says it's one of the best decisions he's ever made...keep up the good work folks!

[deasine]

Still in spite of these beautiful pics, Vancouvere is still a very expensive place to live in. In fact, many British Columbians say that:

"BC = Bring Cash"

In which I do agree to this to a certain extent.

[Pinion]

I used to work for a security company in downtown Vancouver. One of the perks of the job was having access to the top of many downtown skyscrapers - areas that only security personnel and engineers could go. So a few weeks ago, after I decided I was quitting, I thought I'd take my camera up to the top of a 30 storey building right in the middle of downtown and take as many shots as possible, because a view like this is too nice to waste on just me:

1. Looking north across Burrard Inlet (Pacific Ocean) to North Vancouver. I live in North Van in that cluster of apartments in the distance. Coast mountain range behind that.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/4.JPG

2. Looking north-west.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/5.JPG

3. Looking west down Georgia street, one of the main roads through the city. Stanley Park in the distance. Hotel Vancouver in the front left.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/1.JPG

4. Looking west out to the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/9.JPG

5. Looking down at the main shopping/party street in Vancouver: Robson street (quiet east end of it).

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/11.JPG

6. Looking south across the Granville street bridge.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/13.JPG

7. Vancouver's tallest building for a few more months - the Wall Centre.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/15.JPG

8. The court building.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/18.JPG

9. South-east condo-land.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/20.JPG

10. More condos.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/21.JPG

11. Half of BC Place stadium, and yet more condos under construction.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/22.JPG

12. A seagull who was not impressed with all of Vancouver's condos.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/23.JPG

13. "WTF are you doing up here?"

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/24.JPG

14. Mount Baker (active volcano), Washington state, clearly visible in the background even though it's hundreds of miles away. Skyscrapers in the background are Metrotown, Burnaby. Mostly condos, believe it or not.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/27.JPG

15. Wide south-east shot.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/29.JPG

16. Looking east. Somewhat smoggy day.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/30.JPG

17. East again, with the Harbour Centre now in view.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/31.JPG

Hope you like 'em... I'd appreciate any comments as this is my first post ever.

[SpongeG]

i don't wanna know what it was like standing up there

i can barely go out on a balcony on a three storey building

[Pinion]

Honestly, with a one foot high railing, it took me a while to get close to the edge too. At first I could only get about five feet from the edge before I started feeling queasy. But I loved hanging out there so much when the weather was nice that I got comfortable with it. I even fell asleep up there once, just flat out on the concrete (ssh haha).

The seagulls get really anxious when they see people up there. It's very rare; they think it's their territory.

[Smooth]

Great shots Pinion. Thanks for taking the time to share them!

[achu]

fantastic shots....
disappointing to see all that smog though... maybe we can circulate these pictures and open up people's eyes.

[giallo]

^Hehe, smog. That looks downright beautiful compared with what I'm going through here in Shanghai at the moment.

Great photos from a unique perspective. Thanks, Pinion.

[Dylan Leblanc]

wow what a set!