by Sean Orr | Telus to invest $3b in BC As a result, Telus House will be new name of the Houses of Parliament. I, for one, welcome our new insect communications overlords.
Raze the Roof: Grease is the word at BC Place Stadium. Right, because if everything went well it just wouldn’t be Vancouver.
This is what democracy looks like? Anti-Harper crowd chase their tails. You can just smell the paranoid stench secreting from this guy’s withered adrenal glands, soaking the bed in rancid poison, dripping onto his circa 2005 Dell lapbook. His self-hatred manifests, not as biting commentary, but as spiteful, re-hashed, instant knee-jerk reaction stolen almost entirely from an Archie Bunker episode. Shiny balls. Very clever.
It’s the same thing that makes people stand up at a dinner table and say, “Well I don’t understand,” as though it was an excuse for their ignorance. It’s the same thing that makes people think it’s OK to call for David Suzuki’s assassination on Twitter. No Libs. Clever.
Downtown Eastside program loses childcare spaces. I blame fancy restaurants.
Sears closing stores in Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver. Can we tear down that hideous igloo now?
Kudos and Kvetches: Taxonomy. “We get it, Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition, taxes are so high you can’t even afford a proofreader”.
No harm no fowl: Ont. man charged with possession of stolen chicken. “Halton Regional Police recovered the two-and-a-half metre chicken from the backyard of Brent Smith, 36, thanks to an anonymous tip.
Fallout: Finding Purpose at Pecha Kucha. “Sean Orr rambled about nothing in a drunken and idiotic stupor wasting six minutes of our lives we will never get back”. Boo ya, achieved. I give you me. I give you nothing.
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Sean, but I like that igloo! It was designed by Cesar Pelli who also built the TD Tower, one of the only beautiful highrises downtown. The two buildings have a visual relationship. I appreciate your calling the old Eaton’s/Sears building an igloo, but that building has 70s cool. The igloo should be kept and the Vancouver Art Gallery should move in there, as was suggested when Eatons failed in that spot. All we’d need is a walkway joining it to the current VAG across Howe. Can you imagine? It would be a coup for tourism. Vancouver is one of the top 5 or 10 visual arts-producing cities in the world and deserves an iconic complex at the centre of town. And this solution solves the whole VAG problem in one fell swoop. The proposed Larwill Park site near the CBC was always a poor option for the VAG.
That does sound pretty neat. Maybe it could be an underpass connecting the mall to the VAG to the Skytrain. I don’t usually call for the demolition of buildings but if we could make it more functional and enhance it’s relationship to the street that would be ace.
Yeah, I think it totally would be. So much pedestrian traffic back and forth right there, so much visibility on Granville and all other sides – it’d be iconic. I was actually thinking of a really beautiful overpass over Howe but underpass good too. The main engineering problem will be to remove some of the interior columns inside the building to facilitate art, but otherwise the form is good for a major art gallery. PS that igloo really needs a pressure wash right now.
By the way – Cesar Pelli is in the starchitect category (I hate that word, but anyway):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli