Architectural Record article by Linda Baker
The Woodward’s District, a residential complex developed by Westbank Projects/Peterson Investment Group, aims to chart a new direction with a socially inclusive design by Henriquez Partners Architects. The $300 million project is rising on the site of a former department store in Downtown Eastside. When completed in 2009, it will encompass four interconnected buildings containing 500 market-rate and 200 low-income residential units, a supermarket, drug store, and offices for nonprofits including AIDS Vancouver and Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.Project architect Gregory Henriquez says that the emphasis on ‘community needs and economic revitalization’ stems from a community design process that the city initiated after acquiring the Woodward’s site in 2003.
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The Cordova Parkade incorporates pieces of surrounding historic architecture while offering modern amenities aimed to help revitalize downtown Vancouver. The city of Vancouver commissioned Henriquez Partners Architects to renovate and extend a parkade that once provided parking for customers of Woodward’s, the former Canadian department store. Located in the east side of downtown, the new structure, Cardova Parkade, is part of a project to revitalize the downtown area. The challenge to the architects was to be sensitive to the historic 20th-century architecture of the surrounding area, while providing modern amenities.
