The architectural style of small floor plate residential point towers with townhouse podiums are generally awknowledged to have been pioneered in Vancouver in the early 1990s. The Vancouver Model/Style was created when the City was coming up with urban design guidelines for the residential redevelopment of a large portion of the downtown core.
The City's goal was to find a new way to have high density residential housing that did not rely on slab towers. They wanted eyes on the street, a human-scaled street wall, and less of the feel of being in a canyon. The towers are usually stepped back from the street wall and there is a minimum 80 foot separation between towers to ensure privacy and the provision of ample natural light for the apartments and the street.
The Canadian - Live-Work townhouses. For some the lower floor is a salon, realtor, office, and the upper floors are the private residence.
One Harbour Green in Vancouver's Coal Harbour neighbourhood. Close up of townhouse podium.
Carina in Vancouver's Coal Harbour neighbourhood. Close up of townhouse podium. (One Harbour Green from the last picture is to the left in the background)
Carina townhouses, different style.
The Lions in Vancouver's Triangle West neighbourhood. The townhouse podium ties together this block-long development.
Yaletown neighbourhood townhouse podium.
Townhouse podium in the Arbutus Walk neighbourhood.
Monderain in the Yaletown neighbourhood.
Spectrum A in the Crosstown neighbourhood. (interesting sidenote, this is one of a four-tower development on the edge of the downtown escarpment and below it is a 120,000 square foot Costco fronting onto a street five stories down. The first mixed-use Costco)
Eden in the Yaletown neighbourhood.
The Oscar in the Yaletown neighbourhood.
Nexus in the Yaletown neighbourhood.
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