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The Bartholomew Plan and the False Creek Flats: Taking Industry to the Heart of the City
As City of Vancouver deliberates over the future of the False Creek Flats, the Bartholomew Plan provides one unfulfilled vision of area. In 1928, Harland Bartholomew and Associates were hired by the Vancouver Town Planning Commission to develop the first (and only) master plan for the nascent City of Vancouver — a plan was never… »
Accounts of the First Day in the Life of a Middle Age Student Union Building @ UBC Vancouver
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… »
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The Georgia Straight recently published on cover article on BTAworks’ upcoming atlas and toolkit on the Neighborhood Effects of Global Climate Change. Click here to read the article. Watch this blog for Part One of the… »
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The Long Road Back to the Downtown Vancouver of the 1940s
While Vancouver’s lack of Inner City Freeways is often cited as one of the “nine decisions that saved paradise”, it did not necessarily stop sprawl, but severely impeded. More importantly, it set the stage for the re-urbanization of Vancouver’s downtown core in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Even so, despite its recent history of… »
Laneway Housing in the City of Vancouver: Let’s Make the Most of It
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 particular about what kind of housing the city really needs… »
The City as Ecosystem?
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… »
Welcome to the New Blog for BTAworks
Hello, World!
This is the new web presence for BTAworks and will feature the various papers, projects, and resources for the research and development division of Bing Thom Architects.
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