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NewsArticleForrest–Baker House: A modernist icon worth saving

Forrest–Baker House: A modernist icon worth saving

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Date : December 31, 2019

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A journey to Design Victoria Festival as only the

A journey to Design Victoria Festival as only the west coast can provide.

We’ll be at events across the 4-day festival including our own on Saturday morning. If you spot us, come say hi. We’d love to meet you!

Link in bio for the full program.

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Continuing our tour of Vancouver Island modernism

Continuing our tour of Vancouver Island modernism in the lead up to @designyyj.

Coming soon to the League’s Modern Places survey.

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Modernism in unexpected places. Coming soon to t

Modernism in unexpected places.

Coming soon to the League’s Modern Places survey.

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Another day, another spin around the west coast. I

Another day, another spin around the west coast. In reality, there’s yard work happening right now in an ocean breeze under the hot sun.

Enjoy some fantastic architecture from Vancouver Island!

Coming soon to the League’s Modern Places survey.

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An afternoon stroll on the west coast, playing hoo

An afternoon stroll on the west coast, playing hooky. More buildings and projects coming soon to the League’s Modern Places survey.

Happy Friday!

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Meet Alexander Suvajac. Alexander joins the League

Meet Alexander Suvajac. Alexander joins the League on May 2nd at Design Victoria, sharing with us his latest works.

Alexander Suvajac is a landscape designer with a focus on rural retreats, wellness spaces, contemporary urban gardens, artist retreats, and restorative gardens. With respect and intention, the work seeks to create serene spaces that complement the outward expression of the land. Informed by new perspectives, the studio’s work and focus have developed to emphasize creating atmospheres that evoke a greater sense of well-being. The projects offer quiet confidence and respect for the sensitive, subtle, and energetic qualities space creates. The landscape design practice values a listening and response to the poetry of the landscape instilled over years of experience.

MAY 2 • 2026 | 10:30AM • 12:00PM
GABRIEL ROSS | 1319 GOVERNMENT ST | VICTORIA BC
DOORS 10:30AM | TALK 11:00AM

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER

The League is grateful for the partnership and generous support of Gabriel Ross and Design Victoria Festival.

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Meet Kyla Bidgood, sharing her work with us during

Meet Kyla Bidgood, sharing her work with us during our upcoming 'On the Boards' event at Design Victoria.

Kyla Bidgood is a Registered Interior Designer and Creative Director of the award-winning design studio Bidgood. Bidgood creates spaces that blur the lines between design eras and styles. Their interiors embrace warmth, texture, and rich materials that are both thoroughly functional and artistically uplifting. Bidgood is dedicated to cultivating a feeling of joy in every space they touch. Anchored in thoughtful materiality and tactile experiences, their interiors are curated and considered.

MAY 2 • 2026 | 10:30AM • 12:00PM
GABRIEL ROSS | 1319 GOVERNMENT ST | VICTORIA BC
DOORS 10:30AM | TALK 11:00AM

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER

The League is grateful for the partnership and generous support of Gabriel Ross and Design Victoria Festival.

[Images] Mary McNeill-Knowles @mmk_creative

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In a little over a month, the League welcomes you

In a little over a month, the League welcomes you into a house that holds a prominent place in the cultural milieu of Vancouver’s design scene. Originally built for a couple who made waves within their respective disciplines—Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Canada’s most celebrated landscape architect, and Peter Oberlander, an architect and founding Director of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning and UBC Centre for Human Settlements—this house was lovingly made a home by them over decades. Today, under the stewardship of new owners, this remarkable piece of modernist architecture has been devotedly revived, ensuring its longevity while setting the stage for a new family to make it a home.

The League invites you to join us to share in a preview of the soon-to-be-completed renewal of the house and garden, and to hear from the designers, Tony Robins and Ryan Donohoe, on the process of tackling its revival.

Limited spaces remain. Get your tickets today!

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Oberlander Salon is a fundraising effort of the West Coast Modern League, a volunteer-based non-profit society dedicated to the promotion and celebration of modern architecture and design on Canada’s west coast. All funds raised from the event will support the League’s ongoing public programs and initiatives.

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Melding the house with its Vancouver Island site w

Melding the house with its Vancouver Island site was a primary objective of this 2004 design by Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robb. Taking on a U-shaped plan, turning and weaving through a landscape of Garry Oak trees, grasses, and bedrock hillocks, the home holds in reverence the seasonal shifts of time and light, and immersively folds the daily cycles of nature into the architecture.

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The West Coast Modern League is based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples – Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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