720 Robson Street
Here’s a building that’s now seeing construction advance quite fast, and that we overlooked to post until now. Replacing the Farmer Building, a three storey building dating from 1922, the new MCM...
View Article1015 Denman Street
It was once a Starbucks, a Book Warehouse and short-lived sofa store, and for at least three years this part of Denman has been a cleared site. Despite an earlier rezoning that allowed residential...
View Article855 Granville Street
Here’s a development proposal that briefly appeared on the City’s website, and now seems to have disappeared again. It’s the redevelopment of the Granville (formerly Odeon) cinema complex, which will...
View Article535 Granville Street
Most of the blocks to the south of here are part of the Pacific Centre Mall. This building stands alone, and was originally built in the mid 1980s, designed by Charles Bentall, Architect, which would...
View Article1040 Alberni Street
The Grosvenor building was built a few decades ago, designed by Musson Cattell Mackey for Grosvenor Estates. Recently the building was sold to local investors and developers Kingswood Capital, and as...
View Article619 West Hastings Street
Sometimes we feature a project where the details have been published in a list of future schemes to be considered for approval, but no details of the design are available. Very occasionally it works...
View ArticleQuebec and 2nd Avenue
Here’s a proposal that we hadn’t envisaged: MEC have posted their intentions of moving from West Broadway to a new 3-storey building in Southeast False Creek. Designed by Proscenium Architecture, who...
View Article425 West 6th Avenue
This is a surprisingly large office building proposed as a rezoning in the Mount Pleasant area close to the West Broadway and Olympic Village transit stations. Designed by IBI Group for Cressey, the...
View Article1810 Alberni Street
This is the latest West End Plan tower to be submitted as a Development Application (not a rezoning). It’s for 60 residential units (36 strata and 24 affordable market rental housing units) over a...
View Article2301 Granville Street
This development application is for an 8-storey building planned to replace single storey retail on the west side of Granville Street at W7th Avenue. Designed by IBI, it proposes 41 dwelling units...
View Article1394 Robson Street
Until last month the Robsonstrasse Hotel sat on this site. Now the 1955 apartment building has been cleared; (it was converted to hotel use in 1976). The development application is for a four storey...
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