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Modern West Coast PlacesMatthew Soules

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Category : Hapa Collaborative, Matthew Soules, Nick Milkovich Architects, Studio Parsons

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When the world comes to play, Vancouver shows up!

When the world comes to play, Vancouver shows up! From Team Canada exceeding expectations on home soil, to community viewing parties dotted across the city, visitors from across the globe cheering on their teams, to cheering for everyone’s team regardless of their flag, the past month of the World Cup has been non-stop joy. This is Vancouver, a cosmopolitan city where hosting the world has for generations played an outsized role in the evolution of our modern civic life. We’ve been here before, hosting the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Expo 86, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and the 2015 Women’s World Cup. When we welcome the world, we can accomplish some incredible things, and we can thank some of our renowned modernists for laying the foundations.

Civic celebration is vital to the health of cities, boosting social cohesion, improving mental health, and driving economic vitality. As we’ve done in the past, let’s take stock of what worked and what could be improved, and let’s not forget to keep some of this magic for ourselves.
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#wearevancouver #fwcvancouver2026 #teamcanada #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

From start to finish, the League has been followin

From start to finish, the League has been following the remarkable restoration and transformation of Ron Thom's 1959 @fellshouse. Over decades, under multiple owners, the home had been altered and added to and was showing the passage of time. With tenacity and admirable commitment, new owners, with @darcyjonesarchitects, have recaptured the soul of this Wrightian-inspired home while bringing it into the 21st century.

Last night, we celebrated the renewed life of this architectural gem with a beautiful art collection by @addition.vancouver and floral art by @_studioilo_.

Stay tuned for more...
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#ronthom #midcenturymodern #modernwestcoastplaces #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Vancouver showing off as it does 📸 [Images] Steve

Vancouver showing off as it does 📸

[Images] Steve Gairns
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#vancouverarchitecture #vancouverhostcity #modernwestcoastplaces #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Jack Poole Plaza was completed in 2009 as part of

Jack Poole Plaza was completed in 2009 as part of the expansion to the Vancouver Convention Centre. Since then it has served as one of downtown Vancouver's prime public spaces for festival and global celebrations. Most famously, the plaza is home to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Cauldron and is the namesake of Canadian businessman, the late Jack Poole who led the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid Committee.

Over the past few weeks, the plaza has served as the center of Canada's World Cup coverage featuring a pop-up TSN/CTV studio. That studio, set against gorgeous views across Burrard Inlet to the Coastal Mountains, was also designed to provide prime viewing of World Cup matches to crowds that have at times been in the thousands.

Today, the last day of Vancouver's World Cup hosting duties, marks the last day of coverage and viewing parties in this location. It's been a blast!
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#jackpooleplaza #fwcvancouver2026 #modernwestcoastplaces #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

The new PNE Amphitheatre opened not even a month a

The new PNE Amphitheatre opened not even a month ago and has already hosted tens of thousands of football (soccer) spectators and concert goers. Designed by Revery Architecture with Fast & Epp, the impressive open-air venue boasts one of the largest free-span timber roof structures in the world, measuring in at more than 340 feet. The structure is set into the slope of Windermere Hill, on the grounds of Hastings Park, with two of three arches framing picturesque views of the Coastal Mountains. The third arch, to the back of the audience, frames a view to the thrills and chaos of Playland.

In a temperate climate such as ours, it is a privilege to be able to have an open-air cultural venue with all-important rain cover!

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[Images] Steve Gairns
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#pneamphitheatre #masstimbershell #modernwestcoastplaces #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Canada. A place of remarkable and deeply talented

Canada. A place of remarkable and deeply talented peoples. Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦
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#canadaday #canadianarchitecture #canadianpublicart #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Granville Street is for the people. Build it and t

Granville Street is for the people. Build it and they will come. Pure joy.

[Image] Steve Gairns
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#granvillepedestrianzone #granvillestreet #worldcup2026 #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

Talk about a hidden gem! Blink and you will probab

Talk about a hidden gem! Blink and you will probably miss it. We found this because someone in the passenger seat happened to turn their head to look out the window at the exact moment we drove overhead.

Guardians of the Pump (2024) by Hanna Benihoud took an otherwise unnoticed piece of urban infrastructure and transformed it into a playful community intervention. Enlisting narrative and design input from local children, Hanna created a series of modern-day, medieval-inspired gargoyles, each “guarding” the pump station and populating a brightly painted mural enveloping the landscape and its structures.

Of course, we’ve added this to the League’s Modern Places index!

[Images] Steve Gairns
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#publicart #urbaninfrastructure #modernwestcoastplaces #westcoastmodernleague #wcmlvan

When it opened in 1983, BC Place was said to be th

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