In this day and age of the Autocad and digital design, is the study model still playing a role in the architects’ creative process? Surprise: it’s at centre stage! How and why?
This is what reveals this exhibition [sic]…
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12 examples from the series Woodwards Project, 2005-2009
Christian Dahlberg, a Vancouver artist, has produced a series based on the Woodward’s project. The series features over 100 photographs taken from the same vantage point between 2004 and 2006, as well as digitized variations.
For more information, please visit christiandahlberg.com.
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past
by Leigh Kamping-Carder
July/August 2009
Stan Douglas, Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 (2008).
The woman runs down the Vancouver street, her orange hair swinging. On the sidewalks, against the parked cars and shop windows, in the ethereal beam of city street lights, police officers advance on her fellow rioters. Cops on horseback charge the shaggy protesters; as two officers drag a man in blue jeans toward a black paddy wagon, you can almost hear the scrape of his feet on the asphalt. The windows of the Woodward’s department store — several lives before its current incarnation as high-end condos — are dark. And on the periphery, middle-class onlookers survey the spectacle: the Gastown Riot.
Or, rather, the Gastown Riot as chronicled by Vancouver artist Stan Douglas in Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, a massive digital photograph set to be installed this June at the multimillion-dollar Woodward’s building redevelopment, in the heart of the city’s Downtown Eastside. The photograph depicts what Douglas, who has documented the neighbourhood before, considers a crucial moment in the community’s history…
Read the full article at walrusmagazine.com.
By Lance Berelowitz
Published: June 11, 2009
‘The Band,’ winner of the Jury Selection Award in the Where’s the Square?
design ideas competition sponsored by the Vancouver Public Space Network.
If we build it, they will come. Or will they? And does it matter if they don’t? What is the importance of having a public square in the 21st century city, whose citizens are more likely to commune electronically, in virtual space?
Vancouver’s planning and design community has long bemoaned the lack of a major public open space in the centre of the city, like those great squares that so many other cities are identified with. Meanwhile, critics have noted the city’s eccentric emphasis on public life at the periphery. Vancouver has always had more intense public spaces at its edges than at the centre: Centrifugal City.
It seems that Vancouver’s true public spaces are its beachfront parks, plazas, walkways and associated strands…
Read the full article at thetyee.ca.
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