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Accounts of the First Day in the Life of a Middle Age Student Union Building @ UBC Vancouver

By ayan
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Sometimes to move forward, one needs to take two steps back. This set of Ubyssey clippings is a window on first day for the UBC Student Union Building in September 1968 courtesy of the Ubyssey archives.
Despite the promise of free donuts and coffee on opening day, the first day for the… »

Join the Bing Thom Architects Facebook Fan Page

By ayan

Bing Thom Architects, the parent organization to BTAworks, is now also on Facebook. Become a BTA Fan today and see some of the articles, images, and movies that inspires and motivates us.
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Laneway Housing in the City of Vancouver: Let’s Make the Most of It

By mheeney

The City should be congratulated for considering the vast swaths of our single family neighborhoods with an eye to densification through building laneway housing. But as the City of Vancouver establishes its policy on laneway housing, it needs to think more broadly – in… »


The City as Ecosystem?

By ekeenan

Can treating our region as an ecosystem of finite capacity allow new development and retrofit existing building stock without limiting the resources available to future… »

Downtown ‘Empty Condo’ phenomenon largely a myth, study finds

By ayan

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Vancouver, British Columbia - The popular belief that there are large numbers of empty downtown condos with offshore owners is largely disproved by a new study released by BTAworks…. »