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Modern West Coast PlacesRon ThomNarod House I, 1950

Narod House I, 1950

Narod House I, 1950

Narod House I, 1950

Narod House I, 1950

Category : Pratt Architects, Ron Thom

Constructed 1950
Location Vancouver, BC
Architect
Ronald J. Thom
Sharp and Thompson, Berwick, Pratt Architects
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MEET ANDREW VAN EGMOND, one of the speakers at the

MEET ANDREW VAN EGMOND, one of the speakers at the League's next On the Boards event, May 11th at Design Victoria.

After working for 11 years at OKRA Landscape Architects in The Netherlands, Andrew decided to start his own design studio. He won the LILA award in 2020 and was on the jury of this international Landscape Architecture Award in 2021. While working on different projects in Europe, ranging from small to large-scale landscape architecture projects and collaborating with various parties, he decided to utilize his dual (Dutch/Canadian) citizenship and move to BC about eight years ago.

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.

Andrew’s recent projects in the Lower Mainland and The Netherlands represent his continuing quest to work more and more in collaboration with nature. Working with geology, a sense of place and framing nature by implementing minimalistic, contemporary interventions that create a comforting, inviting and often contemplative experience. He is exploring circularity and always trying to anchor the site in the larger landscape.

ON THE BOARDS SPEAKER SERIES

SAT • MAY 11 • 2024 | 2:00–4:00pm
Design Victoria Festival
Gabriel Ross | 1319 Government Street, Victoria, BC

FREE EVENT with registration | Open to the public
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MEET BIANCA BODLEY, one of the speakers at the Lea

MEET BIANCA BODLEY, one of the speakers at the League's next On the Boards event, May 11th at Design Victoria.

Bianca Bodley has 13 years experience designing and project managing residential and commercial installations in Victoria, Vancouver and the Gulf Islands. Her project portfolio includes public and residential landscapes, interior atriums, living walls and green roofs. Biophilia’s service is driven by Bianca’s values of open communication, accountability and understanding, innovation and sustainability. Whether it is a public space or an intimate interior atrium, Bianca believes each project has the opportunity to be a sanctuary for people to connect with their natural world. That vision is what drives her to explore and innovate, and to continue finding new ways to connect to nature as we design and build our environments. Bianca and her team take on a project as if it were their own and look to find efficiencies in team work and collaboration with the community of builders with whom we have fostered long standing and deeply respectful relationships.

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.

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SAT • MAY 11 • 2024 | 2:00–4:00pm
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May 9-12, Design Victoria returns for its second a

May 9-12, Design Victoria returns for its second annual celebration of the city’s growing design community. Experience design, access creative studios that are not normally open to the public, learn more about the stories behind familiar businesses and get inspired by the design ideas and creative work being produced in the City. The festival includes design in many forms, including architecture, ceramic, fashion, furniture, graphic, illustration, interior, lighting, landscape, product, software, urban, user experience.

The League is thrilled to bring its popular ON THE BOARDS series to this year’s festival. On May 11th, the League will be joined by Bianca Bodley of Biophilia Design Collective and landscape architect Andrew van Egmond for a talk about bespoke, natural landscapes, each presenting projects recently completed or currently underway.

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📢 On May 11th, the West Coast Modern League bri

📢 On May 11th, the West Coast Modern League brings its popular ON THE BOARDS series to the second annual Design Victoria festival, a weekend celebrating the city's growing design community.

Bianca Bodley of Biophilia Design Collective and landscape architect Andrew van Egmond will join us for a talk about bespoke, natural landscapes, each presenting projects recently completed or currently underway.

ON THE BOARDS is a speaker series showcasing the creative works of our local design talent, those who are carrying forward the fertile culture of creativity and experimentation on Canada’s west coast.

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SAT • MAY 11 • 2024 | 2:00–4:00pm
Design Victoria Festival
Gabriel Ross | 1319 Government Street, Victoria, BC

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Barry and Mary Downs called this place home for 43

Barry and Mary Downs called this place home for 43 years. Dubbed “Downs House II,” it is the second home and studio that Barry designed for his family, and one that sits prominently at the forefront of West Coast Modernism, published widely.

Their first home, “Downs House I,” is located on a flat residential lot on the south side of Vancouver. Surrounded by treed suburbia, the design took a more insular approach, in plan and section, drawing connections to lush courtyard gardens, out of view of the neighbours. Several decades later, Downs House II took a different approach set high atop a seaside precipice. In the procession from hillside forest to seaside cliff, the architecture unveils and immerses you in the vast beyond, overlooking the waters of Garrow Bay and further to the Strait of Georgia, albeit always grounding you to the sensory experiences of the immediate ecosystem. Both homes exemplify living comfortably in quiet celebration of our natural surroundings.

A second-wave pioneer of the West Coast Modern movement and Member of the Order of Canada, Barry Downs sits prominently amongst a cohort of architects and designers who played a vital role in shaping our region. Fred Hollingsworth, Ned Pratt, Ron Thom, Arthur Erickson, Geoffrey Massey, Don Vaughan, and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander are to name just a few. And, just as Barry continues to influence and inspire subsequent generations of designers, so too should his personal residences. They are the living embodiment of the modest life that he and his family lived, and the creative experimentation that would go on to influence so many other of his designs.

Currently on the market, any future owner, who would be so lucky to call it home, should know that, while modest, this house is special and carries with it a formidable architectural history. It should be protected.
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Downs House II, 1979
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by Barry Downs

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