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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If Its Libraries Had Giant Reading Hammocks

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(via) The fun-loving creatives at Spanish design house Play Office have come up with a way to make reading more fun for kids with this gigantic suspended net that functions as a reading hammock. I dare say it would make reading more fun for adults, too, which is why our public libraries should install them straight away. Sure we might have to sign waiver forms, wear helmets, and stand in a line-up because only two people would ever be allowed to enjoy it at once, but an hour hanging out in one of these would be worth whatever restrictions the nanny’s would throw at it. Making it wheelchair accessible might prove a bit of a problem, but that’s what engineers are for. Yay future!

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had More Safe Indoor Spaces for Skateboarding

Its vaulted ceilings may have once carried the tenors and altos of Catholic choirboys, but nowadays the acoustics of the abandoned St. Liborius Church have been repurposed to carry the screeches and echoes characteristic of a DIY Skatepark. We think Vancouver would be cooler if we had an all-inclusive indoor community skatepark of our own...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Floating Housing Project at the Port

Imagine a colourful, mixed-used, housing complex like Amsterdam's Silodam floating at the foot of Victoria Drive.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had Floating Camp Sites in False Creek

Imagine Belgium's Vlot Kamp - essentially eight floating campsites accessed from the shore by canoe - next to Olympic Village.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Cocktail Bar Hidden in a Skytrain Station

This 15-seat speakeasy-style bar is located behind a nondescript door in New York City's 28th Street subway station.