Pink House & The Octopus Salon – 2024.06.08
June 8, 2024 from 3:00pm–6:00pm
Fundraising Event
Presented by the West Coast Modern League
On June 8th, the West Coast Modern League invites you to join us for an exclusive opportunity to explore MA+HG’s 2020 Pink House & The Octopus, to engage in conversation and camaraderie with fellow design aficionados, and to enjoy appetizers, wine, and cider from the Bowen Cider House. Guests are encouraged to arrive early to catch remarks about the project from architects Marianne Amodio and Harley Grusko, as well as landscape architect Joseph Fry.
Completed in 2020, the Pink House & the Octopus stand as a gleaming example of a modern/heritage hybrid restoration with a contemporary infill befitting the historic eclecticism and multi-cultural fabric of its Vancouver neighbourhood. Designed by MA+HG Architects, with landscape by Hapa Collaborative, the project undertook to restore and modernize a century old character home while creating “Missing Middle,” multi-generational housing. A total work of art for an art-aligned owner in an artistic community, the home has been dubbed the Pink House & The Octopus for its historical reference to colour and the multi-limbed series of intersecting infill dwellings along the laneway.
Limited tickets available | $150 per person
Doors at 3:00pm | Remarks at 4:00pm
Join us at MA+HG’s Pink House & The Octopus for an intimate afternoon of conversation, appetizers & libations, remarkable architecture, and remarks from designers Marianne Amodio, Harley Grusko, and Joseph Fry.
Tickets include an afternoon at this architectural masterpiece with fellow design aficionados, appetizers and refreshments, plus a copy of MA+HG’s project zine elaborating on the schematic design process.
Address will be issued to ticket holders prior to the event.
Pink House & The Octopus Salon is a fundraising effort of the West Coast Modern League. All funds raised from the event will support the League’s ongoing public programs and initiatives. We thank you for your generosity. Please note that we are not able to offer tax receipts at this time.
Hosted by the League’s Board of Directors:
- Steve Gairns is an architect, founding principal of euoi studio | architecture + design, and Chair of the League.
- Wendi Campbell is a Chartered Professional Accountant, owner of a Robert Burgers-designed home, and a founding League member.
- Chelsea Louise Grant is an architect and founding principal of euoi studio | architecture + design.
- Jeanette Langmann is the director of Uno Langmann Gallery, owner of Merrick House (1972) by Paul Merrick, and a founding League member.
- John Patkau is a founding principal of Patkau Architects and the internationally renowned designer of the Audain Art Museum, the Polygon Gallery, and many west coast houses. He is a founding League member.
- Kiriko Watanabe is the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator at the Audain Art Museum. She is the curator and co-author of Selwyn Pullan: Photographic Mid-Century West Coast Modern and recipient of a Metro Vancouver 2010 RAIC Advocate of Architecture Award.
- Adele Weder is an architectural writer, editor, and the curator of the travelling exhibition Ron Thom and the Allied Arts. She is the founder of the West Coast Modern League.
About the House
Modern West Coast Places
Pink House & The Octopus, 1900s/2020
Vancouver, BC
Designed by MA+HG Architects
Landscape designed by Hapa Collaborative
City of Vancouver Award for Heritage Conservation (2023)
Heritage BC Recognition Award, Conservation (2021)
Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice (MCHAP Cycle 5), Nomination (2024)
Meet the Designers
Marianne Amodio + Harley Grusko [MA+HG Architects]
Marianne Amodio began her eponymous firm, marianne amodio architecture studio in 2009. The practice was awarded the Arthur Erickson Award for Emerging Architect and the AIBC Award for Emerging Firm. In 2017, the firm welcomed Harley Grusko and was renamed MA+HG Architects.
Marianne oversees all projects at the studio, ensuring a high level of design excellence, thoughtfulness and rigour. She is intensely involved in all stages of the project, from early design conception, through negotiation with Authorities Having Jurisdiction, and on site, ensuring tradespeople know the value of their work. Marianne is an advocate for beauty, meaning and service in Architecture.
Marianne gleefully co-hosts Pecha Kucha Vancouver, is an avid speaker on Social Density and the right to beautiful housing, and mentors a growing brood of Intern Architects.
Harley Grusko holds a Masters Degree in Architecture (honours) from the University of Manitoba, is a registered Architect with the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and a LEED Accredited Professional. Harley has led a number of projects in the studio that are focused on design excellence, innovation and performance, including The Hollywood Theatre and Residences, and MAC, an upcoming social housing project completed under the Province of British Columbia’s Forestry Innovation Investment Mass Timber Demonstration Program.
Previously, Harley was the Project Architect of the award winning VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre (LEED Gold, Living Building Challenge Petal Certification) and the Project Architect for the Student Union Building at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, with Perkins & Will Vancouver.
Harley brings a calm expertise to the practice and he consistently strives for innovation, rigour and making the pragmatic poetic.
Joseph Fry [Hapa Collaborative]
Joseph Fry is the founding principal of Hapa Collaborative and a contemporary voice for landscape architecture and urban design in Vancouver. Throughout his career, Joe has dedicated himself to deepening the discussion around the economic, societal and environmental values of civic placemaking. Over two decades, he has advocated for these ideals as a member of the Vancouver Advisory Urban Design Panel, the chair of the Richmond Urban Design Panel, a director of the BC Society of Landscape Architects, and as an adjunct professor and advisory board member for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Joe is a coach, a parent, a volunteer and a committed participant in our City’s discussion about design and the public realm.
He has been the design lead for many of Hapa’s projects including šx??? ?n?q Xwtl’e7én? Square at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Foot of Lonsdale Plaza and Shipyards Plaza in North Vancouver, the award-winning Sun Hop Park in Vancouver, Langley’s McBurney Lane revitalization, and Market Lane in London, Ontario.
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The West Coast Modern League gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our host, along with speakers Marianne Amodio, Harley Grusko, and Joseph Fry.
About the League
West Coast Modern League
[WCML/The League] The West Coast Modern League is a leading voice for modern architecture and design on Canada’s west coast. Established in 2013, the League is an independent, Vancouver-based, non-profit society dedicated to celebrating, and advancing the understanding and appreciation of, architecture, urbanism, and design of the North American west coast, with a special focus on the southern coastal regions of British Columbia. We are a volunteer-based organization, led by a Board of Directors composed of architects, curators, critics, and professionals, with a passion for west coast architecture and the allied arts.