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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had An Observation Shelter At Prospect Point

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The point of VWBCI is to open local minds to outside practices, concepts, and ideas that might stand to improve our greater civic situation in a parallel universe where coolness was valued more than practicality and funds spent on public works of art were raised by way of a special NIMBY tax levied against serial complainers.

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(via) Something similar in scope and size to this stunning new observation platform and shelter on the River Daugava in Latvia would be a interesting addition to the cliffs at Prospect Point in Stanley Park. It was made almost entirely of larch wood and designed on a natural incline by Latvian studios Didzis Jaunzems and Laura Laudere with the architectural assistance of Jaunromans un Abele. Its top is footed with ridged planks to keep people who ascend it from slipping in the rain, while the shelter below sports frontage that is glassed in to provide a contemplative respite from the wind and wet. Outside, a terrace wraps the front and leads to a cantilevered balcony that hangs over the edge.

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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.