Vancouver Planning Chief Toderian Given the Axe
FRANCES BULA
VANCOUVER— From Tuesday's Globe & Mail
The Vision city council is terminating the contract of former mayor Sam Sullivan’s most high-profile hire, planning director Brent Toderian. According to sources, Mr. Toderian was told last week that his contract is being ended “without cause.”
Monday, January 30, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Hedonistic Sustainability:
Theory Meets Pragmatism Meets Optimism in Bjarke Ingels' Architecture
Theory meets pragmatism meets optimism in Bjarke Ingels' architecture. His big-think approach is informed by a hands-on, ground-up understanding of the needs of a building's occupants and surroundings.
Full bio and more links
Bjarke Ingels' architecture is luxurious, sustainable and community-driven. At TEDxEast he shows us his playful designs, from a factory chimney that blows smoke rings to a ski slope built atop a waste processing plant.
Friday, January 27, 2012
From fastcoexist.com —
Popuphood: How To Revitalize A
Struggling Neighborhood In Six Months
POPUPHOOD from Eva Kolenko on Vimeo.
Many cities in America are facing the slow decline of their main streets and shopping areas. But a new program in Oakland might be the key to reviving vibrant, local commercial centers. All it takes is a little free rent and some entrepreneurial spirit.
Read more: Popuphood: How To Revitalize A Struggling Neighborhood In Six Months | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Gabor Gasztonyi's Downtown Eastside Photographs "A Room in the City"
Foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté
A Room in the City
By Gabor Gasztonyi
A Room in the City presents Gasztonyi’s five-year project of photographing the residents of the Cobalt, Balmoral, Regent, and Sunrise Hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the poorest postal code in the country. They are represented in private moments, with respect and dignity—in their rooms and on the streets—as they wish to be seen. Gasztonyi’s style continues in the great documentation tradition of Anders Petersen and Josef Koudelka, the photographer of the Roma.
Read more at Anvil Press
From Spacing Vancouver —
Winter Solstice Beat
Winter Solstice Beat from Kathleen Corey and Brian Gould on Vimeo.
The HD version is highly recommended and available at its Vimeo page.
Winter in Vancouver is not quite like winter in other Canadian cities. There is a unique beat that arrives in the city as the days get longer and the nights get shorter.
Even on cold days, Granville Island is bustling with people. Les Finnigan, a regular busker with a gentle demeanour, plays his soothing acoustic tunes as our eyes wander out to sea.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Maleks Buy New Property Listed at
$4.9-Million - The Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 10:43PM EST
The Malek brothers made a place in history in Vancouver after their Olympic village development ran head-on into a financial crisis during the world economic meltdown, which forced the city first to bail them out, then take over their near-$1-billion loan.
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