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Sectioning the tower: a mixed-use building exploration in downtown Vancouver Furman, Andrew Derrick
Abstract
The contemporary city is driven by private interests, leaving the public spaces as a weakly woven system. In such a system public space making is usually the left-over in the composition. By shaping the publicly accessible spaces through the section of the tower, a series of relationships of public/ private occur. Elevating the public ground throughout the city through remedial and new developments brings the public space to a more direct confrontation with the typology of the tower. The site chosen for this exploration of building and public space making is the municipal address of 900 Burrard St. in downtown Vancouver. The block already contains two existing buildings, which represent excellent regional examples of early Modernism; the former BC Electric Building and the Dal Grauer Substation. A programme of hotel, residences, office space, fitness club, cinema, and branch library generate specific scenarios around which the public space negotiates as transitional space.
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Sectioning the tower: a mixed-use building exploration in downtown Vancouver
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University of British Columbia
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1997
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The contemporary city is driven by private interests, leaving the public spaces as a weakly woven
system. In such a system public space making is usually the left-over in the composition. By
shaping the publicly accessible spaces through the section of the tower, a series of relationships of
public/ private occur. Elevating the public ground throughout the city through remedial and new
developments brings the public space to a more direct confrontation with the typology of the tower.
The site chosen for this exploration of building and public space making is the municipal address
of 900 Burrard St. in downtown Vancouver. The block already contains two existing buildings,
which represent excellent regional examples of early Modernism; the former BC Electric Building
and the Dal Grauer Substation. A programme of hotel, residences, office space, fitness club,
cinema, and branch library generate specific scenarios around which the public space negotiates as
transitional space.
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eng
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Date Available |
2009-05-28
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0088675
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University of British Columbia
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1997-11
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Graduate
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.