Vancouver Viaducts: The Freeway That Almost Destroyed the City
I used to think Vancouver’s bridges were just… nice. The Burrard Bridge has bike lanes and wide sidewalks. The Cambie Bridge gets more foot traffic on a weekday than most people would guess. Coming from São Paulo, where the marginais — our highways that run along the rivers — are loud, hostile, dirty, dangerous, and […]
Gentle Brutalism: Why Vancouver’s Concrete Feels Different
What do you picture in your mind when you think of “brutalist architecture”? For most people, that’s something cold: a fortress of raw concrete, no windows at street level, a building designed to be looked at rather than walked through — structures built to make a statement, often at the pedestrian’s expense. But not if […]
Adaptive Reuse Architecture in Vancouver: Exploring Heritage Buildings and Contemporary Insertions
Adaptive Reuse Architecture in Vancouver: Heritage Meets Glass Have you ever noticed how your city deals with urban gaps? That’s how I like to describe those spaces between existing buildings that get connected, reactivated, or transformed into something entirely new. In Vancouver, that’s one of the things that fascinates me most about adaptive reuse architecture […]