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Greenwood House, 1954

Greenwood House, 1954

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Robson Central, 1957/1996

Robson Central, 1957/1996

Robson Central, 1957/1996

Category : James Cheng, Semmens & Simpson

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Ron Thom's 1955 Hall House has been demolished.

Ron Thom's 1955 Hall House has been demolished.

While the home appeared to have been well-maintained over the years, it had undergone a number of extensive renovations and additions since 1955. According to building permit records, a pool and cabana had been added in 1969, along with substantial renovations inside and out in 1981, and again in 2001. Photographs taken at different periods over the past few decades show the extent of alterations to both the interiors and exteriors, with elements and details that are rather incongruous with Thom’s architectural idiom.

Ron Thom was an illustrious Canadian architect whose pioneering work in modern domestic architecture was instrumental to the proliferation of the West Coast Modern movement. While characteristically quite different from Thom’s more well known residences, Hall House draws similarities to the previously demolished Merler House in West Vancouver, and existed amongst the architect’s extensive body of work of artful, innovative, and meticulously detailed modern residences on the North Shore and across the BC south coast.

While not officially designated a heritage asset, the home was recognized for its significance as a “Support Building” in the West Vancouver Survey of Significant Architecture 1945-1975.
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Hall House, 1955
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by Ron Thom (Thompson, Berwick & Pratt)
Demolished, 2024
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The League is excited to invite you to an afternoo

The League is excited to invite you to an afternoon of art, architecture, and conversation at the Arthur Erickson & Nick Milkovich-designed Choklit Townhomes. Nick Milkovich will join us to share his experiences working with Arthur on this and other landmark projects. As the design intended, you can immerse yourself in an exquisite collection of artworks personally curated by homeowner Bruce Munro Wright, who will also be present to welcome you and say a few words about the art and architecture.

The Choklit Townhomes, completed in 2004, is a triplex community aptly named for its proximity to the original Purdy’s Chocolates factory in Vancouver. This modern glass, steel, and concrete structure is a celebration in industrial loft living that prioritizes natural light, adaptation to a diversity of lifestyles, and the creation and enjoyment of art. Atop this “Cathedral of Art” sits an expansive rooftop terrace with brilliant views towards False Creek, the downtown core, and the Coast Mountains.

CHOKLIT SALON

SUN MARCH 9 • 2025
2:00 • 5:00pm

Appetizers & refreshments will be served
Doors at 2:00pm | Remarks at 3:00pm

Limited tickets are available for $150 per person.

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Choklit Salon is a fundraising effort of the West Coast Modern League. The League is a volunteer-based non-profit society dedicated to the promotion and celebration of West Coast Modernist architecture and its creators. All funds raised from the event will support the League’s ongoing public programs and initiatives.

Special Guest:
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Robson Central has had a very public life. The bui

Robson Central has had a very public life. The building was originally designed by Semmens & Simpson to house the new Vancouver Central Library (1957). In the mid-90s, after the library moved to its new location, the building was renovated at the hands of architect James Cheng. In the time since, it has housed television and radio studios, Virgin Megastore, Planet Hollywood, HMV, and numerous other retail outlets.
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Robson Central, 1957/1996
Vancouver, BC
Designed by Semmens & Simpson
Renovated by James Cheng
Sculpture by Lionel Thomas
Massey Silver Medal for Architecture (1958)

Link in bio for "MODERN PLACES," the League's ongoing survey of modern west coast buildings and projects.
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#FridayFinds "With about 800 square feet of enclos

#FridayFinds "With about 800 square feet of enclosed living space, plus a deck of 270 square feet, architect Jerry Buzzelle has provided a spacious, efficient, and attractive summer home designed especially for holiday living." – Western Homes & Living, June 1964
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Parsons Summer Cottage, c. 1964
Bowen Island, BC
Designed by Jerry Buzzelle
Landscape by Philip Tattersfield & Associates
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From all of us to all of you, we wish you the best

From all of us to all of you, we wish you the best in 2025! There’s another exciting year ahead that we can’t wait to share with you. Thank you for your continued support. Have a blast tonight! ⁠
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Happy New Year from the⁠
West Coast Modern League!⁠
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Bowker House, 1967
West Vancouver, BC⁠
Designed by Barry Downs & Fred Hollingsworth
(Hollingsworth & Downs)
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At this year's ADFF:Vancouver, the League had the

At this year's ADFF:Vancouver, the League had the distinct pleasure of introducing, to a sold-out audience, the Vancouver premiere of Schindler Space Architect, the first feature-length documentary on famed Austrian-American architect Rudolph Schindler.

Austrian-born and educated, R.M. Schindler laid the foundation for what is now considered the California lifestyle of indoor-outdoor living. This documentary explores his richly complex work, with its influences from the turn of the 20th century Vienna, the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the pueblos of Taos. It is an investigation into Schindler’s philosophy of Space Architecture as contrasted with the International Style that ruled modern architecture during most of the architect’s life.

The film reexamines Schindler’s complicated relationship with his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and his rival Richard Neutra. The story asks key questions about the importance of domestic architecture in creating a national culture and as a living entity that shapes humanity. Schindler Space Architect affirms the singular genius of one man and the eternal challenge every artist faces to stay true to their vision and leave a lasting impact.

Scene's from ADFF:Vancouver and Schindler's Kings Road House, November 2024.

Photography by Steve Gairns (1,3,5), @oldvancouverarchives (2), and @lindsaytakesphotos (4)
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In 2024, the League brought its popular 'On the Bo

In 2024, the League brought its popular 'On the Boards' series to the relaunched Design Vancouver Festival. Hosted by Inform Interiors, we were joined by Andrea McLean and Imu Chan for a talk bridging the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and art in the public realm.

Andrea McLean holds two distinctions, Intern Architect, AIBC, and Registered Interior Designer, IDIBC. Her design practice focuses on residential building design, interior design, and landscape design. Andrea credits her time living in Japan, five years total, following interior design school, as pivotal in shaping her sense of place and understanding it’s relationship to design and architecture.

Imu Chan is a Vancouver-based architect practicing at the confluence of art and architecture. His portfolio spans personal sanctuaries, gathering places and public art. His works are marked by their simplicity, purposefulness and emotional affinity with us, often achieved by humble means and with affecting imagination.

Scenes from the League's 'On the Boards,' September 2024.

Photography by Chelsea Grant
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2024 marked the centenary of Canada’s pre-eminen

2024 marked the centenary of Canada’s pre-eminent architect Arthur Erickson. The West Coast Modern League, with the West Vancouver Art Museum and the The Polygon Gallery, celebrated the centenary and the built legacy of Arthur Erickson through the lens of local designers who have revisited the famed architect’s work. We were joined by Daina Augaitis, Clinton Cuddington, Geoffrey Erickson, and Nick Milkovich who shared their work on Smith House II, Filberg House, and the Museum of Anthropology, respectively. Through active renewal and preservation, this group has helped to shepherd these iconic structures forward, working to safeguard their physical longevity and continued inspiration for future generations.

Vancouver-born and raised, Erickson developed an interest first in the arts and then in the study of architecture, leading to an eclectic career with international impact that spanned six decades and produced some of Canada’s most iconic structures. Erickson defined site, light, cadence, and space as his four first principles of architecture, elements that are each critical to the understanding of his design explorations. From these, he created some of our region’s most cherished modern buildings, from single-family residences to our most significant cultural and civic spaces.

Scenes from the League's 'Site | Light | Cadence | Space: Arthur Erickson Revisited,' Jul#wcmlvan

Photography by @mkphotomedia
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In 2024, the League took its popular 'On the Board

In 2024, the League took its popular 'On the Boards' speaker series to the Design Victoria Festival, joined by Bianca Bodley of Biophilia Design Collective and landscape architect Andrew van Egmond, for a talk on bespoke, natural landscapes.

Working at a variety of project scales, Victoria-based Biophilia Design Collective, founded by Bianca Bodley, aims to design meaningful, resilient, and connected landscapes that enrich the lives of all users, cultivate moments of connection, create and nourish a sense of community, and support the ecological and cultural fabric within which they exist.

Andrew is well known for his subtle and minimalistic landscape design approach. With his experience, he works to strengthen the sense of place by connecting it with the underlying landscape. Andrew’s landscape architecture explores the contrast between the natural landscape and architecture, striving for a balance between the spontaneous expression of nature and minimal-modern architectural interventions.

Scenes from the League's 'On the Boards,' hosted by Gabriel Ross, May 2024.
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In 2024, the West Coast Modern League, with Inform

In 2024, the West Coast Modern League, with Inform Interiors, welcomed Marc Treib to Vancouver for a fabulous talk on the landscapes and architecture of 20th century California's Thomas Church and William Wurster. 'Tommy and Bill' examined the course of their buildings and landscapes as they evolved over several decades, deriving their designs in response to their physical and social environments.

Beginning in the 1930s, but especially during the immediate postwar years, William Wilson Wurster and Thomas Dolliver Church—in architecture and landscape architecture respectively—included in their sizable dossiers works executed both in collaboration and individually. While Wurster shunned the wholescale adoption of modernist ideas from abroad, he used them to temper and adapt long-established California architectural traditions. Sharing with Wurster these same predilections, Church produced an impressive number of landscapes both in Northern California and in the United States more widely, but always rooted to their sites, environments, and clients’ lives, whether ultimately deriving modernist form and space or those more traditional.

Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a prolific author whose writing focuses on modern landscape and architecture in the United States, Scandinavia, and Japan.

Scenes from the League's 'Tommy & Bill' with Marc Treib, January 2024.

Photography by @mkphotomedia
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From our families to yours, we wish you a healthy,

From our families to yours, we wish you a healthy, festive holiday full of warmth and good cheer. ⁠
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Happy Holidays from the⁠
West Coast Modern League!⁠

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Helmut and Hildegard Eppich House, 1972
Designed by Arthur Erickson
Renovated by BattersbyHowat Architects (2015)

Hugo and Brigitte Eppich House, 1979-1988
Designed by Arthur Erickson with
Francisco Kripacz and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Studio Addition by Nick Milkovich (2014)

#FridayFinds This week we give you a 2-for-1 speci

#FridayFinds This week we give you a 2-for-1 special. Here we find a couple of early works of local modernism, on the rocky slopes of West Vancouver, both featured in the Fall/Winter 1973-74 issue of House Beautiful's Building Manual. This issue focused on houses in symbiosis with nature, demonstrating that the "development of land need not destroy its character. It is possible to adapt a house to its surroundings–with assimilation of architecture and environment–so that each enhances the other." I think they came to the right place–we do this so well!
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Beaton House, 1965
Designed by Arthur Müdry
Demolished, 2018

Sorrentino House, 1971
Designed by Fulvio Sorrentino
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Ron Rule was a celebrated landscape architect whos

Ron Rule was a celebrated landscape architect whose work and dedication profoundly influenced landscape architecture on the West Coast of Canada. Born in the United States, he earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon, later registering as a landscape architect in British Columbia (1975), Washington (1978), and California (2002). Early in his career, he gained formative experience working with renowned landscape architect Don Vaughan before founding his own firm in 1975, specializing in high-end residential garden design. In a career spanning over 50 years, Ron completed nearly 2,000 projects, earning a reputation as a pioneer of residential landscapes.

Ron’s expertise extended beyond design into education, mentorship, and public engagement. For 17 years, he directed the UBC Continuing Studies Garden Design Certificate Program, and co-established the UBC Garden Design Lecture Series. His lectures, tours, and writings bridged professional practice and public appreciation for garden design, helping to elevate the field. Internationally, he immersed himself in the horticultural traditions of England and France, working in the iconic gardens of Christopher Lloyd at Great Dexter and Rosemary Verey at Barnsley House, and organizing, along with his wife Carolann, 16 garden design history tours to the region.

A prolific writer and speaker, Ron’s work regularly appeared in numerous publications, including Landscape Architecture Magazine, Azure, Garden Design, Canadian Living, BC Home and Garden, and Western Living. A mentor, educator, and community leader, Ron was considered an ambassador for the profession of Landscape Architecture, inspiring countless students, practitioners, and the general public, leaving an enduring legacy.

Ron Rule passed away on November 26, 2024 in Vancouver. The West Coast Modern League offers our condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and all of those who have taken inspiration from his designs, depth of knowledge, and mentorship.

[Photo] Brian Houle

There is a palpable energy of jubilation in Downto

There is a palpable energy of jubilation in Downtown Vancouver that has been building over the past week and is set to go off with a bang tonight. If you're milling about downtown this weekend, seeking out song-related light installations, attending the myriad of pop music-related events, riding the temporary ferris wheel at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and generally soaking in the sights and sounds of the season, take a look around at the eras of our incredible west coast architecture. Much of it has been designed by our talented community of local architects, landscape architects, and designers.

Use #modernwestcoastplaces and tag us @wcm_league with your favourite photos!
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#FridayFinds Here we find a feature on a small hom

#FridayFinds Here we find a feature on a small home, less than 1,000 square feet, for a young couple on a treed lot overlooking the harbour, a view since overgrown by the surrounding vegetation. The home was built in 1949, a design of architect Fred Hollingsworth, marked by "crisp, clean, modern lines and functional, open planning..." We're happy to report that this home still stands today.
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Rasmussen House, 1949
Designed by Fred Hollingsworth
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The West Coast Modern League congratulates Pantea

The West Coast Modern League congratulates Pantea Haghighi on her appointment as the Administrator/Curator for the West Vancouver Art Museum.

Haghighi has been serving as Curator in Residence at the Vancouver Art Gallery and is currently a Doctoral student at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on modernism in architecture and visual arts in relation to vernacular politics. Her dedication to the arts is evident in her community advocacy, fundraising, and experience with intellectually ambitious curatorial projects.

Haghighi takes over the position from Dr. Hilary Letwin, whose exemplary work over the past six years continued to elevate the Museum’s high reputation. We wish Letwin all the best in her new position as Manager of Curatorial Services for the City of Coquitlam.

The West Vancouver Art Museum has a rich history of promoting and advancing knowledge of the architecture and design of the West Coast. Here at the West Coast Modern League, we are proud to have served as collaborators and contributors to the Museum across numerous past projects, and we look forward to continuing this support and collaborative spirit.

West Coast Modern League
Board of Directors

This #givingtuesday, please consider a donation in

This #givingtuesday, please consider a donation in support of the West Coast Modern League, an all-volunteer, registered non-profit society in British Columbia.

Your contributions are crucial to supporting the League’s mission to celebrate, advocate for, and advance awareness of modern architecture and design on Canada’s west coast. All funds raised are allocated to support the League’s year-round public programming and initiatives, including but not limited to cultural activities (such as lectures, salons, and celebrations), heritage advocacy work, and the support of projects that encourage of stronger architectural culture. The League also aims to offer much of our public programming for free or by small donation in order to provide programs accessible to students, young professionals, and a broad audience of design enthusiasts. We rely on the generosity of donors like you to expand on these important research and advocacy efforts, and to produce new events that are free and open to all.

Every dollar makes a difference and is greatly appreciated!

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Looking back at photos from an early formative tri

Looking back at photos from an early formative trip to Los Angeles, in first year architecture school, with a visit to the incomparable Schindler House. 14 years later came the distinct pleasure to introduce, to a sold-out audience, the ADFF Vancouver premiere of Schindler Space Architect, the first feature-length documentary on its famed architect.

In telling the story of West Coast Modernism, we often talk about the formative influences of Frank Lloyd Wright, and Richard Neutra who famously lectured in Vancouver in 1946 and 1953. But, while we are less often to mention him, we can and do include Rudolph Schindler within that sphere of influence. Schindler’s life and career was intimately intertwined with those whom we consider the global pioneers of modern architecture, and whose ethos and renegade spirit we can draw many similarities to our own home-grown movement.

Schindler was a rebellious, counter-cultural figure and, like so many of his early 20th century counterparts, emigrated to America with the dream of breaking from European traditions. Rudolph would push that boundary even further. He spent the bulk of his career in L.A. preoccupied with creating a more radical architecture from the inside-out, connected to its place in the world, and intently focused on the human experience. He turned modern dwelling on its head, with new forms and materials used in a way that was subservient to the human experience and embraced nature and architecture as indistinguishable.

Watching the film and reminiscing on this early visit, thinking about his history and work in the context of our own regional response to modernism, perhaps we owe more credit to Schindler’s local influence than we’ve so far given him.

[Images 1-4] Steve Gairns, Chair @wcm_league
[Image 5] @oldvancouverarchives
[Image 6] @lindsaytakesphotos
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#FridayFinds A visit to the 1941 B.C. Binning Hous

#FridayFinds A visit to the 1941 B.C. Binning House, the original West Coast Modern house, found in the October 1950 issue of Western Homes & Living. "This is the story of a house that was a pioneer...a pace-setter...in West Coast contemporary design 10 years ago and is still thoroughly modern."
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B.C. Binning House, 1941
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by B.C. Binning
with C.E. Ned Pratt & R.A.D. Berwick
National Historic Site of Canada, 1997
Municipally-Designated Heritage Property, 1999
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