Tag Archives: British Columbia

Vancouver building achieves Canada’s highest accessibility rating

Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility, a nonprofit charity in Vancouver, has achieved the highest national accessibility rating to date under the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) program. With a score of 96 out of 100 points (96 per cent), the ‘RHF Accessibility Certified Gold’ rated building has set the Canadian benchmark for meaningful accessibility in the built environment. 

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GBL Architects designs mixed-use development in Vancouver

GBL Architects have unveiled designs for Archetype, a mixed-use development in Vancouver’s newly revitalized False Creek Flats neighbourhood. The development is centrally positioned within an emerging and dynamic district that caters to the city’s innovation economy. Archetype serves as an innovative precedent for a mixed-use residential, commercial, and light industrial integrated urban development.

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Vancouver Passive House affordable housing development gets green light

Ryder Architecture has received unanimous approval from the Vancouver city council for their Passive House affordable housing development in Vancouver for the non-profit organization Brightside Community Homes Foundation. The development’s design is in response to the foundation’s ideals, namely the mandate to build and foster resilient communities for those who struggle to meet the demands of market housing.

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B.C. to pilot next-generation retrofits to improve multi-unit housing

The Province of British Columbia, through B.C. Housing, and the City of Vancouver, the B.C. Non-profit Housing Association, and the Pembina Institute, is launching the Reframed Lab initiative to find ways to make homes safer, more energy-efficient, and less polluting, while reducing heating costs for residents. Through Reframed Lab, the partners will do retrofit demonstration projects on up to five multi-unit residential buildings.

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KPF receives city approval to build office tower in Vancouver

The Vancouver City Council has unanimously approved Kohn Pedersen Fox’s (KPF’s) design for the 601 West Pender Street project. Sensitive in both scale and materiality, the building replaces a six-storey parking structure in the city’s Central Business District with a retail base covered by a planted pedestrian canopy, an enhanced Alley Oop laneway, 29 floors of state-of-the-art workspace, and crown amenities with panoramic views of the city.

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