WE: Vancouver – 12 Manifestos for the City was presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 12 to May 1, 2011. This exhibition examined Vancouver through the extraordinary range of practices, actions and ideas that shape and activate it.
Activate

We make active or operative. We energize. We initiate. We mobilize.

Hughes Condon Marler Architects and SFU Community Trust

Hughes Condon Marler Architects and SFU Community Trust

UniverCity Childcare Centre is in the early stages of construction, with completion planned for the fall of 2011. When open it will provide an important model for integrated and sustainable building. The daycare is located in UniverCity, a dense, mixed-use, transit-oriented community built by the SFU Community Trust, in partnership with the SFU Childcare Society...
Birmingham & Wood: Architects and Planners

Birmingham & Wood: Architects and Planners

The Mountain View Cemetery buildings at 5455 Fraser Street were designed by Birmingham & Wood, Architects and Planners, for the City of Vancouver. Construction was completed in 2009. The project team, led by Sandra Moore MAIBC, conceived of a group of buildings that would provide an important space for intimate private funerals and public community...
Christian Kliegel

Christian Kliegel

Christian Kliegel’s practice sits firmly between the discourses of art and architecture. Commissioned to create the architectural design of WE: Vancouver, Kliegel approached the task conceptually, examining the history of exhibition design and formulating a unique approach to this particular exhibition.