Home
Events
Advocacy
Places
Resources
Watch This
Friends
News
About
Contacts
Subscribe
Donate

VIA Architecture

Modern West Coast PlacesVIA Architecture

Burrard ALRT Station/ Art Phillips Park (Discovery Square), 1985/ 2021

Burrard ALRT Station/ Art Phillips Park (Discovery Square), 1985/ 2021

Category : Allen Parker & Associates, Don Vaughan, VIA Architecture

Join Our Community

First Name

Last Name

Email address

Leave this field empty if you're human:

Follow Us on Social Media

The League congratulates the recipients of this ye

The League congratulates the recipients of this year’s Western Living Design 25 Awards in the Products category, reflecting the ingenuity and thoughtfulness underpinning the allied arts across Western Canada. The Western Living Design 25 Awards is an annual program to honour excellence in room and product designs across Western Canada, selected by a jury of experts.

Photos represent winners in the Products category.

LINK IN BIO
.
.
.
.
.
#westernliving #westernlivingdesign25 #wldesign25awards #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

The League congratulates the recipients of this ye

The League congratulates the recipients of this year’s Western Living Design 25 Awards, reflecting the ingenuity and thoughtfulness underpinning the design culture of Western Canada. Across 100 selected finalists and 25 award winners, it is clear that the future of design in Canada shines bright. The Western Living Design 25 Awards is an annual program to honour excellence in room and product designs across Western Canada, selected by a jury of experts.

Photos represent winners in the Rooms category.

LINK IN BIO
.
.
.
.
.
#westernliving #westernlivingdesign25 #wldesign25awards #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

With a deep sense of loss, we join the community i

With a deep sense of loss, we join the community in mourning the passing of our friend and colleague, renowned landscape architect Don Vaughan. In landscape architecture, as in life, Don approached the world with curiosity, vitality, good humour, and, importantly, the resolve to lift others up. He fulfilled this aim through design, education, mentorship, and friendship in equal parts. Underpinning his formative contributions to our built environment, and the discipline of landscape architecture, was a steadfast belief in the democratization of the public realm and the common good. This philosophy, felt in the seminal works of Expo 86, the post-Expo development of False Creek, Whistler Town Centre, Ambleside, and the myriad of plazas and parklets dotting Vancouver’s West End and surrounding municipalities, have become a part of the daily routine for thousands living, working, and playing across the region. Our urban environment and daily way of life is better off for his vision and care in crafting public space for the support and enjoyment of all.

The West Coast Modern League offers our heartfelt condolences to Don’s family, friends, and to those who mourn in recognition of his unique and extraordinary legacy.

Don Vaughan
June 21, 1937 – January 19, 2026

LINK IN BIO FOR THE LEAGUE'S FULL STATEMENT

[image] Don Vaughan. Paul Albi and Saba Farmand, Surroundings (2013). Rain City Productions.

📸 Scenes from the League's On the Boards with Andr

📸 Scenes from the League's On the Boards with Andrea Copp & Mike Seymour.

We are so grateful for our community of designers, artists, makers, and cultural enthusiasts who came out on Monday night to learn about and celebrate the new design and ceramic works of Andrea & Mike. It was an evening inspired by intense creativity, underscored by an embrace of imperfection and, as Mike dubbed, a "down to clown" willingness to question established processes.

Launched in 2023, with events in Vancouver and Victoria each year since, On the Boards has featured local practitioners primarily across the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. This latest event marked the League's focused effort to expand the series into the allied arts.

Many thanks to Andrea and Mike for putting in the effort to share their works with us, and to Andres Aramburu and Addition Agency for hosting us.

@wcm_league
@addition.vancouver
@andreacoppceramics
@sfossils

[Images 1-8] Steve Gairns
[Image 9] Andres Aramburu
[Image 10] Chelsea Louise Grant
.
.
.
.
.
#wcmlontheboards #vancouverart #vancouverartists #ceramics #industrialdesign #vancouverarchitecture #vanarch #pnwarchitecture #designlovers #designtalk #design #modern #ontheboards #andreacopp #mikeseymour #vancouver #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

TONIGHT at Addition Agency in the Armoury District

TONIGHT at Addition Agency in the Armoury District, we will be joined by Vancouver-based ceramic artist Andrea Copp and artist/designer Mike Seymour for the next in the League's On the Boards series. Andrea and Mike will each share their latest works and research within practices that both articulate intuitive, material-led experimentation with sculptural and functional prerogatives.

See you there!

JANUARY 26 • 2026 | 5:30PM–7:00PM
ADDITION AGENCY
1675 WEST 2ND AVE | VANCOUVER
DOORS 5:30PM | PRESENTATION 6:00PM

Arrive early to view works currently exhibited at Addition Agency.

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER

@wcm_league
@addition.vancouver
@andreacoppceramics
@sfossils

Images: @whentheyfindus @alejandro_ramoroz
.
.
.
.
.
#wcmlontheboards #vancouverart #vancouverartists #ceramics #industrialdesign #vancouverarchitecture #vanarch #pnwarchitecture #designlovers #designtalk #design #modern #ontheboards #andreacopp #mikeseymour #vancouver #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Meet Mike Seymour, who will share his work with us

Meet Mike Seymour, who will share his work with us during our upcoming On the Boards event on January 26th.

Mike Seymour’s artwork situates itself within the disciplines of craft, design, and sculpture. His process involves an experimental approach to combining and using craft and industrial processes and hands-on collaboration with craftspeople and technicians. Deliberately suspending his focus between crafts such as metalworking, enamelling, glass working and ceramics, combining the processes and materials almost haphazardly, his interest lies in bypassing a kind of technical ability to allow the material and techniques to influence the works.

In 2024, Mike Seymour launched ‘Sfossils’ as a way of reframing works that bridge sculptural and functional prerogatives. The debut installation ‘Paean’ was a large columnal ceramic chandelier hung in the grand staircase of the Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, a 16th century disused villa in Milan, Italy.

Mike Seymour has been exploring surfaces for his most recent projects, mainly by examining the interconnectedness of materials used in crafts like ceramics, enamelling and glassblowing. Using first-hand relationships between these ways of working, observations on industry, and the communities that form around them as sources of inspiration – these projects become social, philosophical and most recently, political.

JANUARY 26 • 2026 | 5:30PM–7:00PM
ADDITION AGENCY
1675 WEST 2ND AVE | VANCOUVER BC
DOORS 5:30PM | PRESENTATION 6:00PM
FREE EVENT WITH REGISTRATION

Arrive early to view works currently exhibited at Addition Agency.

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER

@wcm_league
@addition.vancouver
@andreacoppceramics
@sfossils

[Images] @whentheyfindus @alejandro_ramoroz
.
.
.
.
.
#wcmlontheboards #vancouverart #vancouverartists #ceramics #industrialdesign #vancouverarchitecture #vanarch #pnwarchitecture #designlovers #designtalk #design #modern #ontheboards #andreacopp #mikeseymour #vancouver #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Meet Andrea Copp, one of the speakers who will sha

Meet Andrea Copp, one of the speakers who will share her work with us during our upcoming On the Boards event on January 26th.

Andrea is a Vancouver-based ceramic artist working primarily in a variety of stoneware and porcelain clays, with ties to both Canada and the UK. Her practice spans sculptural and functional forms, including one-of-a-kind collectible works, paper-thin porcelain sculptures, a sculptural table, wall-based tile pieces, and intuitive rock sculptures.

Layered with poetry, story, and emotional landscape, Copp’s work explores inner and outer worlds through material, intuition, and balance, shaped by lived experience and place. Her approach is honest and collaborative.

She was recently named Western Living Designer of the Year in the Makers category and a Western Living Design 25 finalist, and regularly leads workshops and creative collaborations.

JANUARY 26 • 2026 | 5:30PM–7:00PM
ADDITION AGENCY
1675 WEST 2ND AVE | VANCOUVER
DOORS 5:30PM | PRESENTATION 6:00PM
FREE EVENT WITH REGISTRATION

Arrive early to view works currently exhibited at Addition Agency.

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER

@wcm_league
@addition.vancouver
@andreacoppceramics
@sfossils

[Images 2, 4] @whentheyfindus
.
.
.
.
.
#wcmlontheboards #vancouverart #vancouverartists #ceramics #industrialdesign #vancouverarchitecture #vanarch #pnwarchitecture #designlovers #designtalk #design #modern #ontheboards #andreacopp #mikeseymour #vancouver #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

📢 On January 26th, join the West Coast Modern Leag

📢 On January 26th, join the West Coast Modern League, with Addition Agency, for the next in our On the Boards speaker series. We welcome Vancouver-based ceramic artist Andrea Copp (Andrea Copp Ceramics) and artist/designer Mike Seymour (SFossils), each sharing their latest works and research within practices that both articulate intuitive, material-led experimentation with sculptural and functional prerogatives, shaped by life experience, place, community, and technique.

Andrea Copp works primarily in a variety of stoneware and porcelain clays, with ties to both Canada and the UK. Her practice spans sculptural and functional forms, including one-of-a-kind collectible works, paper-thin porcelain sculptures, a sculptural table, wall-based tile pieces, and intuitive rock sculptures. Layered with poetry, story, and emotional landscape, Copp’s work explores inner and outer worlds through material, intuition, and balance, shaped by lived experience and place.

Mike Seymour’s artwork situates itself within the disciplines of craft, design, and sculpture. His process involves an experimental approach to combining and using craft and industrial processes and hands-on collaboration with craftspeople and technicians. Deliberately suspending his focus between crafts such as metalworking, enamelling, glass working and ceramics, combining processes and materials almost haphazardly, his interest lies in bypassing a kind of technical ability to allow the material and techniques to influence the works.

JANUARY 26 • 2026 | 5:30PM–7:00PM
ADDITION AGENCY | 1675 WEST 2ND AVE | VANCOUVER BC
DOORS OPEN 5:30PM | PRESENTATION 6:00PM
FREE EVENT WITH REGISTRATION

Arrive early to view works currently exhibited at Addition Agency.

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER

@wcm_league
@addition.vancouver
@andreacoppceramics
@sfossils

Images: @whentheyfindus @alejandro_ramoroz
.
.
.
.
.
#wcmlontheboards #vancouverart #vancouverartists #ceramics #industrialdesign #vancouverarchitecture #vanarch #pnwarchitecture #designlovers #designtalk #design #modern #ontheboards #andreacopp #mikeseymour #vancouver #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

From all of us to all of you, we wish you a Happy

From all of us to all of you, we wish you a Happy New Year and all the best in 2026! We have another exciting year of projects and events ahead that we can’t wait to share with you. Thank you for your continued support. Have a blast tonight! ⁠
⁠
Happy New Year from the⁠
West Coast Modern League!⁠
__⁠
Dodek House, 1958/67
Designed by Ron Thom
(Thompson, Berwick & Pratt)
.⁠
.⁠
.⁠
.⁠
.⁠
#westcoastmodern #vancouverarchitecture #pnwarchitecture #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

2025/26 Partners & Supporters

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.
© 2013-2026 West Coast Modern League. All rights reserved.

Reframe Plus by Northeme. Powered by WordPress

Home
Events
Advocacy
Places
Resources
Watch This
Friends
News
About
Contacts
Subscribe
Donate