2013 has been another busy year in Vancouver for real estate and transportation infrastructure projects.
Real estate projects like Bjarke Ingels’ 52-storey tower, the new urban casino resort at BC Place, and the revival of Arthur Erickson’s 1133 West Georgia project as the Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver have set a new standard for architectural excellence in the city. These projects go far beyond the traditional bland and ‘cookie cutter’ designs that dominate the Vancouver skyline.
The redevelopment of Oakridge Centre will also bring more shopping opportunities to Vancouver’s neighbourhoods and a new kind of dense, urban public realm previously unseen outside of downtown.
The debate over the sustainability of the region’s unaffordable housing prices and ongoing condo boom rages on, however, the region’s very economic and environmental vitality depends entirely on urban change and growth based on densification around major transportation nodes.
Vancouverites should be thankful that we’re not the city of Detroit.
Bjarke Ingels’ 52-storey landmark Vancouver tower approved by City Council
Image: Westbank / Bjarke Ingels Group
Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver revealed
Image: Holborn Group
Vancouver approves new $535-million urban casino resort at BC Place
Image: Paragon Development
Oakridge Centre redevelopment
Image: City of Vancouver/Ivanhoe Cambridge/Westbank
New 10-lane bridge to replace George Massey Tunnel
Image: Government of BC
Tsawwassen First Nation to build Metrotown-sized shopping centre
Image: Tsawwassen Shores
$1-billion redevelopment proposed for Metropolis at Metrotown
Image: Yellowheadbird
Canada’s first shipping container homes have arrived in Vancouver
Image: Ward Perrin, PNG
Jim Pattison’s massive 54-storey Burrard Gateway tower complex approved by City Council
Image: Burrard Gateway / IBI Group / Bing Thom Architects
Image: Westbank / Bjarke Ingels Group
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