Archive for the ‘CITIES | VANCOUVER’ Category

• 2011/09/15 ENVIRONMENT | 2011.09.15 :: Happy 40th Birthday, Greenpeace Canada! posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, BOOK DESIGN, BOOKS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, designKULTUR✭ STARS, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY tagged 40th Anniversary, 40th Birthday, Amchitka - The Concert, Arlene B. Cotter, Arlene Cotter, Books, Brochures, Don't Make a Wave Committee, Fundraising, graphic artists, GRAPHIC ARTS, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Canada, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, logos, Public Service Announcements - PSAs, Rex Weyler, Tony Esslinger, Vancouver, Visual Identity Programs
• 2011/06/19 ARCHITECTS | Gregory Henriquez :: A Profile by Frances Bula posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, designKULTUR✭ STARS, URBAN PLANNING, VANCOUVERISM tagged Architect, Father's Day, Frances Bula, Greg Geipel, Gregory Henriquez, Richard Henriquez, The Globe and Mail, The State of Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver Magazine June 2011, VANCOUVERISM, Woodward's
• 2011/05/31 PHOTOGRAPHY | Heroes :: Fred Herzog ::: Billboards – Vancouver 2011 posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXHIBITIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART tagged "Foot of Main", "Lucy/Granville", "Sign of Good Taste Portland", Billboards, City of Vancouver, Cross-Canada Billboards, Equinox Gallery, Fred Herzog, Granville Street Bridge, John Goldsmith, John Mackie, Kathleen Bartels, Kodachrome, Moshe Safdie, Photography, Scotiabank, Scotiabank Contact, VAG, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Public Library
• 2011/03/10 ARCHITECTS | Congratulations, Bing Thom! posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, URBAN PLANNING, VANCOUVERISM tagged architects, Arthur Erickson, Bing Thom, Canada, Canada Pavilion Expo 92 Seville, Gold Medal Recipient 2011, Horst Thanhäuser, RAIC | IRAC, RAIC | IRAC Gold Medalists 1967-2011, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Surrey Public Library, Vancouver
• 2011/02/06 CORPORATE IDENTITY | Brasília 50 Anos :: Logo Concepts ::: A dK ID reTHINK posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS, BRASIL, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OSCAR NIEMEYER, TYPOGRAPHY, URBAN PLANNING tagged Brasília 50 anniversary, Brasília 50 anos, Brasília 50 birthday, Corporate Identiy, designKULTUR, Lúcio Costa, logos, Oscar Niemeyer, Typography, Wordmarks
• 2010/12/11 MASS TRANSIT | SkyTrain Vancouver > 25 Years :: Busby + Associates ::: Brentwood, the Most Beautiful Station posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXPO 86 | WORLD IN MOTION - WORLD IN TOUCH, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, URBAN PLANNING, VANCOUVERISM tagged "Temples of Transportation", Burnaby BC, Busby Perkins + Will, Governor General's Medals in Architecture, Mass Transit, Millennium Line, rapid transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain Vancouver 25 Anniversary 1985 - 2010, train stations, Translink, Vancouver, VANCOUVERISM
• 2010/12/11 MASS TRANSIT | SkyTrain Vancouver :: 25 Years :: 2010.12.11 posted in CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, MAPS, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, URBAN PLANNING tagged "SkyTrain Flight Plan", "World in Motion – World in Touch", Advanced Light Rapid Transit, Advanced Rapid Transit, Arthur Erickson, Bombardier, Canada Line, Expo 86, Expo Line, Fraser River, Grace McCarthy, ICTS, Intermediate Capacity Transit System, Liberals, Linear Induction Motor, Lower Mainland, Mark I SkyTrain Cars, Mass Transit, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, Millhaven Ontario, NDP, New Democratic Party, People Movers, rapid transit, Skybridge, SkyTrain, Social Credit, Socred, Translink, Transportation, Urban Freeways, Urban Transportation Development Corporation, UTDC, Vancouver, Vancouver 2010, World Expositions
• 2010/11/20 CULTURE + MEMORY | Chuck Davis, »Captain Vancouver« :: 1935-2010 posted in BOOK DESIGN, BOOKS, CITIES | VANCOUVER tagged British Columbia, Charles Hector Davis, Chuck Davis, Greater Vancouver, Gregor Robertson, Harvey Oberfeld, Historians, history, History of Vancouver, Jason Vanderhill, Metro Vancouver History, Urban History, Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library, William Lyon Mackenzie King
• 2010/11/02 THE EXPO FILES | expo 67 versus Expo 2010 :: Dodgy Attendance Figures posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, EXPO 10 | BETTER CITY - BETTER LIFE, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, LOGOLANDIA, URBAN PLANNING tagged Ashworth Robbie Vaughan and Wlilliams Architects and Planners, Attendance Figures, Canada, Canada Pavilion, Canadian Pavilion, China, China Pavilion, Expo 2010, expo 67, Expos, Expositions, He Jingtang, Katimavik, Montreal, Pavilions, Shanghai, Upside-Down Pyramids, World's Fairs
• 2010/09/27 BOOK DESIGN | Vancouver’s Most Awesome Douglas Coupland + Penguin Books :: «Speaking to the Past» ::: UPDATE: Banned from the Group! posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, BOOK DESIGN, BOOKS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, EXHIBITIONS, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY, TYPOGRAPHY tagged "City of Glass", "Still No Free Energy", «Penguin Composition Rules», BOOK DESIGN, censorship, Design in Brtitain, Design Museum, Edward Young, Jan Tschichold, Jan Tschichold’s Penguin Composition Rules adapted for web writing, London Zoo, Nikola Tesla, Penguin Books 75th Anniversary, Penguin Books Flickr group, Penguin Books penguin logo, Penguin logo, Penguin penguin, Penguincubator, Speaking to the Past: A Penguin 75th Anniversary Project by Douglas Coupland", Vancouver's Most Awesome#1", visions of the future
• 2010/09/21 ARCHITECTURE | Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory :: Saved! posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | VANCOUVER, MID-CENTURY MODERN tagged Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
• 2010/09/09 ARCHITECTURE | Icons of 20th-Century Architecture :: Buildings that Sparked My Childhood Imagination posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, BRASIL, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | LOS ANGELES, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, CITIES | NEW YORK, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXPO 39 | DAWN OF A NEW DAY, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, EXPO 70 | PROGRESS AND HARMONY FOR MANKIND, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OLYMPIC GAMES, OSCAR NIEMEYER, UNCATEGORIZED, URBAN PLANNING tagged 20t-ce, Alvar Aalto, Arthur Erickson + Geoff Massey, Auditorium of the University of Technology, Auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal Library, »Katimavik» [Canada Pavilion], Bailey House, Barcelona Pavilion, Bauhaus, Brno, Buckminster Fuller, Canada Pavilion, Casa das Canoas, Case Study House No. 21, Case Study House No. 22, Case Study House No. 8, Chandigarh Secretariat Building, Charles and Ray Eames, Eames House, Eero Saarinen, Fallingwater, Farnsworth House, Festival Plaza, Finish Pavilion, Fitzpatrick House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gateway to the West, Gerrit Rietveld, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Habitat 67, Helsinki, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Jørn Utzon, Johnson Wax Headquarters, Kaufmann Desert House, Kenzo Tange, Kramer House, Le Corbusier, Lever House, Lovell Beach House, Lovell Health House, MacMillan Bloedel Building, Man in the Community, Mies van der Rohe, Moshe Safdie, National Congress/Congreso Nacional, New York World's Fair, Norco, Notre Dame du Haut, Oscar Niemeyer, Pacific Palisades, Palace of the Dawn/Palácio da Alvorada, Palm Springs, Pierre Koenig, Racine, Richard Neutra, Rietveld Schröder House, Roderick Robbie, Ronchamp, Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Chase House [Kings Road House], Simon Fraser University, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, St. Mary's Cathedral, Stahl House, Swiss Pavilion, Sydney Opera House, Taro Okamoto, Tower of the Sun, Trans World Airlines Flight Center, USA Pavilion, Villa Savoye, Villa Tugendhat, Walter Gropius, Washington Dulles Airport, Willy Walter, Yoyogi National Gymnasium
• 2010/09/04 ARCHITECTURE | »SUNROOF VANCOUVER« :: A BLUE SKY TOUR ::: 1 SEPTEMBER 2010 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, OLYMPIC GAMES, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, VANCOUVERISM tagged Acton Ostry Architects — Stella, Arthur Erickson + Geoff Massey — The MacMillan Bloedel Building, Arthur Erickson — Robson Square, Bogue and Babicki engineers, Caesar Pelli — Pacific Centre, City of Vancouver — Georgia Viaduct, Crown Life Place, Gerkan, Howard Bingham Architects — Capitol Residences, James Cheng — Living Shangri-La, Ken Lum — Monument to East Vancouver, Larry Beasley, Marg + Partner Max Bögl — BC Place Stadium Re: Construction, Moshe Safdie — VPL Library Square, Olympic Village 2010, Paul Merrick — Cathedral Place, Peter Busby — One Wall Centre, Peter Cardew, Residences on Georgia, Rhone and Iredale, Stantec Architecture Ltd. in collaboration with Endall Elliot — Patina, The Beasley, The Qube, Vancouver City Hall, Westcoast Transmission Building
• 2010/08/31 VANCOUVER | EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON (TEKAHIONWAKE) :: HOW LOST LAGOON GOT ITS NAME posted in ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, CITIES | VANCOUVER tagged "flint and Feather", "Legends of Vancouver", Ceperley Creek, Charlotte Gray, Chiefswood National Historical Site, Coal Harbour, E. Pauline Johnson, Emily Carr, Lost Lagoon, Siwash Rock, Stanley Park, Tekahionwake
• 2010/08/31 VANCOUVER | WATER ELEMENTS :: THE JUBILEE FOUNTAIN @ LOST LAGOON ::: THE LIGHTS ARE BACK! posted in CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXPO 34 | A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, MAPS, URBAN PLANNING tagged "The Lost Lagoon", A Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago 1933-1934, Chuck Davis, Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), fountains, Jubilee Fountain Stanley Park, Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park, Stanley Park Nature House, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
• 2010/08/30 ARCHITECTURE | West Coast Modern :: Arthur Erickson ::: Dr William + Ruth Baldwin House, Burnaby, BC posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | VANCOUVER, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, MID-CENTURY MODERN, VANCOUVERISM tagged Arthur Erickson, Burnaby heritage, Dr. William and Ruth Baldwin House, Geoff M, Japanese architectural aesthetics, kusari doi [鎖樋], Simon Fraser University, TLC The Land Conservancy, West Coast Modern
• 2010/08/27 RETAIL PACKAGING | Thomas Haas Chocolates by Marc Bricault posted in ADVERTISING, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, RETAIL DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY tagged chocolatiers Vancouver, Marc Bricault, retail packaging, Thomas Haas Chocolates
• 2010/08/23 SEEN | POP CULTURE :: THE VANCOUVER ZOMBIE WALK 2010 ::: ZOMBIE BRIDES posted in CITIES | VANCOUVER, FASHION, PUBLIC ART, SEEN IN …
• 2010/08/15 PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE | VANCOUVER :: CHINATOWN ::: 125 YEARS > 1885 – 2010 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | VANCOUVER, STREET FURNITURE, URBAN PLANNING tagged "Mobile Chinatowns: The Future of Community in a Global Space of FLows", Bamboo Terrace, Carrall Street Connector, Chinatown 1885-2010, Chinatown Vancouver, Chinatown walking tour, Douglas Jung MP, High Fiving Celebrities, historical photographs, history, Ho Ho Restaurant, mascots, Ming's, Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1961: Donna Yee, neon, photographs by Artray, race riots Vancouver 1907, Richmond vs. Chinatown, Sam Kee Building, Spring Festival Parade, UBC Chinese Canadian portal, urban revitalization, V-J parade Chinatown, Vancouver Is Awesome, Vancouver seawall, Vincent Miller, Wild Rose Cake and Pastry Flour sign, Yet Sang Company
• 2010/08/13 ARTISTS + HISTORY | EMILY CARR + GRAHAM WINTER :: THE WEST COAST RAINFOREST THEN + NOW posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, MID-CENTURY MODERN, PUBLIC ART tagged »Edifice: Exploring Art Architecture and Archives«, B.C. Binning, B.C. Electric Building, BC Hydro Building, Emily Carr, Graham Winter, Paul Merrick, Stanley Park 1926, The Electra, totem poles