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🚨 DEMOLITION ALERT: In the life and growth cycl

🚨 DEMOLITION ALERT: In the life and growth cycles of cities, change is an inevitable reality. In this change, we sometimes lose pieces of those things that have contributed to the character or identity of our city for some considerable time. While it is important to retain the physical presence of an architecture, in order to truly understand its subtle intricacies, it is not always reasonable or viable. It is, therefore, important that we celebrate it, that we study it, that we hold onto the lessons that we've taken from it over time, and that we carry forward these lessons into our future city building. ⁠
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The Smith House, by Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt has been apart of our city since 1949, creating home for family, showing us the possibilities of modern domestic living, and contributing, in part, to a movement that has shaped large swaths of our city. While its loss will make way for increased density along the Cambie Corridor, it will not be forgotten. ⁠
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Smith House, 1949⁠
Vancouver, BC⁠
Designed by Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt⁠
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Link in bio for “PLACES,” the League’s ongoing survey of modern west coast buildings + projects.⁠
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🚨 DEMOLITION ALERT: Peer around the corner and

🚨 DEMOLITION ALERT: Peer around the corner and you’ll find an early example of a west coast post-and-beam home. A simple form, an efficient and expressive structure, an interior open plan, and large windows overlooking what would have originally been a view of the Coastal Mountains. Today, it sits boarded up awaiting demolition, the result of a land amalgamation and densification of the Cambie Corridor. In 1949, this house, and many others like it, were on the leading edge of modern domestic architecture in the Pacific Northwest, this project coming from the offices of Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt.
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Smith House, 1949
Vancouver, BC
Designed by Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt

Link in bio for “PLACES,” the League’s ongoing survey of modern west coast buildings + projects.
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Some Dale Chihuly to start your Friday. You’re w

Some Dale Chihuly to start your Friday. You’re welcome!
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Recognize this house in Vancouver? Originally buil

Recognize this house in Vancouver? Originally built in 1951, it appears to be an addition to a typical "mid-century builder" home. If you know it, please DM us.
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Robert Hassell and Barry Griblin in studio at the

Robert Hassell and Barry Griblin in studio at the Hassell House. They started working together in 1968, with a shared interest in BC's wood industrial buildings, and would go on to design some of our region's most definitively "west coast" houses, of the kind you think of when dreaming of a home in the woods amongst towering cedars. "If there really is such as thing as a west coast housing vernacular, it is surely epitomized by their work. Hassell/Griblin houses are often, and perhaps aptly, described as early mineshaft; modern cedar structures clinging to an unbuildable site."[1] ⁠
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🚨 DEMOLITION ALERT: The studio, along with the house, is not long for this world. Currently threatened with demolition, redevelopment is looming, and it's a loss we do not need. As we've seen time and again, real estate pressures are too great, and our municipal policies and incentives are not enough. While it is on the market, it would take someone with deep pockets, and a strong stomach for restoration, to bring it back from the edge. ⁠
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Hassell House, 1966⁠
West Vancouver, BC⁠
Designed/Built by Robert Hassell⁠
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[Image] Courtesy of Barry Griblin.⁠
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[1] McNaughton, S. (Vol. 8, No. 1, 1980). The West Coast Style of Hassell/Griblin. Council of Forest Industries.⁠
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“Bob Hassell’s first house, at Eagle Harbour i

“Bob Hassell’s first house, at Eagle Harbour in West Vancouver, was for himself and reflects an early effort at using simple details and intimate spaces that open up vertically. The central spiral staircase is a focal point in the living room.”[1]
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Hassell House, 1966⁠
West Vancouver, BC⁠
Designed/Built by Robert Hassell⁠
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[Image] Hassell House (1966). Photograph by John Roaf (1975). Published in The West Coast Style of Hassell/Griblin (1980).
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