Modernist Buildings
#41
Posted 27 October 2006 - 06:27 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#42
Posted 05 November 2006 - 04:28 PM
http://www.heritagev... ... 06_05.html
In our region, we'll see some of this happen on the Gorge, although adaptive re-use to SROs seems the direction.
#43
Posted 25 November 2006 - 09:57 AM
Surf Motel gets facelift
The iconic Surf Motel on the Dallas Road waterfront is getting a facelift.
#44
Posted 25 November 2006 - 10:01 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#45
Posted 25 November 2006 - 10:04 AM
Darron Kloster, Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, November 25, 2006
The iconic Surf Motel on the Dallas Road waterfront is getting a facelift.
Jana Mangelsen, whose husband Randy inherited the hotel from his parents and the Surf's founders after both died earlier this year, said a new roof has been put on the 1960 landmark and a contractor is replacing the balconies.
Several callers to the Times Colonist this week were wondering if the Surf was being torn down.
That isn't the case, says Jana. The hotel closes every year in late fall and will reopen again, as usual, Feb. 1.
"Even the contractor is getting a lot of questions from people just stopping by," she said.
A movie production company will be using the Surf to film a made-for-TV movie over three days in early December.
Peter Mangelsen, who built the 14-unit hotel and ran it with his wife, Alice, for more than 40 years, died Oct. 8 at age 95. Alice had passed in June at age 89.
#46
Posted 25 November 2006 - 10:42 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#47
Posted 09 December 2006 - 09:17 AM
Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, December 09, 2006
We are told that Victoria lives by tourism, that the bulk of visitors are Americans and that this season tourist numbers are down. All the more reason to ask ourselves if our visitors will continue to come if Victoria grows to look more and more like Seattle or Vancouver.
We must say an emphatic "no" to the proposition that the appearance of our city should be decided by "the market," developers who have never had any interest in anything other than short-term profit.
Does anyone really believe that a further plethora of skyscrapers and ugly matchboxes will bring people here? Take a look at the Songhees area.
The proposed expansion of the The Bay site, "overheight" and "over the top," deserves nothing less than the appellation "obscene carbuncle."
If we do not get a mayor and council with some vision, we will soon have lots of these. The great cities that attract visitors and residents are overwhelmingly those with great architecture: Classic (meaning having stood the test of time) architecture, of whatever period. Modern architecture is, with very few exceptions, sterile and banal.
Crowds would be attracted to Victoria if essentially the whole of the city core was built in the style of the legislature and Empress buildings!
H.U.P. Edwards,
North Saanich.
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2006
:smt044
Good idea, Mr. Edwards. And we can change Victoria's slogan to "The Town That Just Gave Up".
And let me know when those 500 Italian stonemasons arrive.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#48
Posted 09 December 2006 - 09:26 AM
#49
Posted 09 December 2006 - 06:15 PM
#50
Posted 09 December 2006 - 09:03 PM
Another News Flash: The legislature and Empress don't bear any resemblance to one another whatsoever.
Whenever a letter to the TC contains the word "carbuncle" you know it's from a diehard naysayer.
Does anyone really believe that a further plethora of skyscrapers and ugly matchboxes will bring people here? Take a look at the Songhees area.
I thought Victoria didn't have any tall buildings? But this guy says we've got skyscrapers and warns against a further plethora of them?
Here's a suggestion: go look at a picture of the way the Songhees used to look and then let us know if you think it would have any drawing power for tourists.
For the record, the Bay site isn't being expanded. It's being rejuvenated. Big difference.
People like this guy just hate the city of Victoria.
#51
Posted 10 December 2006 - 09:53 AM
I agree with rejuvenated. However, increasing the height of the present building and adding three towers: that's a significant expansion (which I welcome!)For the record, the Bay site isn't being expanded. It's being rejuvenated. Big difference.
#52
Posted 10 December 2006 - 10:16 AM
#53
Posted 10 December 2006 - 10:21 AM
#54
Posted 20 May 2007 - 09:05 AM
It's 1957 and the BC Electric building has just been completed but notice today's "courtyard" was glassed in then, and the huge trees there now hadn't even been planted yet. The modern extension wasn't due for a few decades so a plot of grass stands where the present entrance is.
Also, the synagogue has just had its original brick exterior "stucco-ized" and won't be restored until the 80s.
I'd like to know what the west side of Amelia Street looked like before the Richard Blanshard extension was built but the archives has nothing under "Amelia".
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#55
Posted 20 May 2007 - 09:46 AM
It's more open than the courtyard.
I'm going to the OIBI right now, I'll snap a shot to show you...
#56
Posted 20 May 2007 - 10:09 AM
#57
Posted 20 May 2007 - 10:12 AM
#58
Posted 20 May 2007 - 11:56 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#59
Posted 29 November 2007 - 11:00 AM
CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 29, 2007
WEST VANCOUVER -- Barring a last-minute change of heart, a member of one of Canada's richest families will soon demolish a Canadian masterpiece: a career-making house designed by renowned architect Arthur Erickson.
Shiraz Lalji, who bought the house in 1988 for $925,000, wants to build a new, bigger home on the site, a cliff face overlooking Horseshoe Bay north of Vancouver.
Lalji has applied for a demolition permit, which will probably be issued in the next few days.
Heritage advocates had hoped to get the house onto West Vancouver's heritage register at a council meeting Monday, but the proposal was defeated.
Built in 1963, the Graham house -- named for its first owner, David Graham -- was revolutionary for its ingenious use of a steep, rocky site many considered impossible to build on.
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007
http://www.arthureri...com/H_grah.html
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#60
Posted 11 July 2008 - 06:34 PM
http://www.canada.co...6c-959952990ea6Maycock stunned his building historically important
Carolyn Heiman
Times Colonist
Published: Friday, July 11, 2008
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