Vancouver Photography

[excel]

^great pictures.

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by raggedy13

Beautiful pics Delirium. What's the concert/festival going on in that first pic?

The "fountain" is part of the City's system of high-pressure salt water fire mains. The city installed a backup system of earthquake resistant water mains throughout the downtown core and, I think, along the main arterials of the city. There are a number of pumping stations that draw on salt water from the ocean and drive them through the system at much higher pressure than normal. That "fountain" was the system being opened and purged, perhaps for ceremonial purposes in light of the Jazz Fest.

[newflyer]

Great pics!!

Vancouver has a most impressive downtown.... great to see such a dense and vibrant downtown .. in a city with such a strong economy.

[mr.x]

Ultimate Vancouver Panorama from Apartment in Chinatown - From Main St (Left) to Downtown to Downtown East Side to Chinatown

[Delirium]

wow! that's a great shot!

here's some good ones from flickr.com -

[Holden West]

Here's a repost of two panoramas I took last summer:

[excel]

wow some great photos amazing pano posted by mr. X.

[subdude]

Haven't posted any of my photos on here in awhile... Here's a few from last year.

2006 Fireworks (Italy):


China:


English Bay view from the Beach Towers:


English Bay:


Granville Island:


Burrard Inlet:


Cascina and Callisto, Coal Harbour

[raggedy13]

Those are some intense crowds in those pics posted by Delirium. I like the second pic in that post too. It looks like it should be Miami or Honolulu rather than Vancouver, or something like that.

[Delirium]

^that's exactly what i thought when i saw it!

great pics subdude. i really like the balcony shot. that could almost be hawaii too..

a few more;

[Delirium]

[LeftCoaster]

Wow those are some surreal pics, these two especially... did you take any of those yourself?

Originally Posted by Delirium

[Delirium]

i wish! but nah. they're from the net...
that last one above is super cool.

[squeezied]

for some reasons, the last pic reminds me of manhattan

[Delirium]

[Canadian Mind]

Originally Posted by Delirium

where is the highrises down this stretch? why no development? :p

[squeezied]

this is robson street, on the left

[SFUVancouver]

The strip of low rises on the south side of Robson is critical to the vibrancy of the street because it allows ample sunlight to reach the sidewalks at all hours of the day throughout the year, even as the sun tracks lower in the winter sky. It is important to note for out-of-towners that Robson is Vancouver's premier high-end shopping street. (Picture Rodeo Drive in LA or 5th Avenue in NYC)

If there were a wall of high rises the streetscape would lose a lot of the "openness" that make it a pleasent place to be. It doesn't feel like you are in a caynon because you aren't. At the same time I think there are a lot of options to increase density along the street without resorting to high rises. 3 to 5 storey buildings with a healthy setback from the property line would be just fine. There are great examples of this on Robson around Nicola and Cardero streets. Two or three floors of apartments, many with fantastic decks and patios, are set back from the over-height retail/commercial/restaurant at grade.

[Canadian Mind]

thanks for the paragraph.

[SpongeG]

it used to have even smaller buildings and even some old houses back in the early 90's

the street to the right is a laneway or back alley a good way to avoid the crowded street when needing to get somewhere