The Creekside Community Recreation Centre is marked by a facade of curtain wall glazing and twenty thousand square feet of zinc panels that catch the light along the False Creek waterfront. This building stands at the center of what was…
Olympic Village Green Architecture
This walking tour highlights how Vancouver transformed a former industrial shipyard into one of the greenest neighborhoods on earth. You'll see innovative waste-heat utilities, naturalized wetlands, and pioneering LEED Platinum high-rises along Southeast False Creek.
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1. Creekside Community Recreation Centre
2. Olympic Village Square
Two giant sparrow sculptures stand in this central square, their immense scale making them visible from across the plaza. Known as "The Birds," these figures by local artist Myfanwy MacLeod overlook a site that served as the temporary home…
3. Vancouver Salt Co. Ltd.
The Salt Building is marked by its expansive, open timber-frame construction and a large clerestory of windows designed to brighten the long interior space. Built around nineteen thirty, the structure was originally constructed on one…
4. Hinge Park
Hinge Park is distinguished by a bridge fashioned from a large, rusty industrial sewer pipe that spans a naturalized wetland. This two-point-three-acre site sits at the intersection of Cambie Street and West Second Avenue, marking a bend…
5. Habitat Island
Habitat Island is a rocky, tree-covered landmass reaching into the waters of False Creek. While it appears to be a natural extension of the shoreline, it is a man-made creation constructed from sixty thousand cubic meters of rock, gravel,…
6. Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility
The Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility is recognizable by the five exhaust stacks rising from the building located directly beneath the Cambie Street Bridge. These stacks feature LED light fixtures at their summits that…