Vancouver Creative Wire

An expert assessment recommends adding the Waldorf Hotel to Vancouver’s heritage register

council will vote on the matter next Wednesday, May 15th; previously

Dave Shea celebrates ten years of the CSS Zen Garden

he’s moved the codebase to GitHub

“Dear Georgia Straight: it’s over—The Man played the long game, and he won.”

Michael Audain reveals Patkau Architects’ design for his Whistler art museum

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This Is Vancity and Behance are hosting project presentations and portfolio reviews on Tuesday, May 14th

at Lost + Found; featuring photographer Rommy Ghaly, packaging designer Andrew Zo, graphic designer Natalie Hawryshkewich, entrepreneur Ben Scott of GoodBomb, and Cup Cuff founder Sandon Monnastes

Vancouver’€™s former chief planner Brent Toderian calls for a design competition for the new Vancouver Art Gallery

Listen to William Gibson read from his upcoming novel at the New York Public Library

and read The Awl’s Brent Cox’s summary of the event

Prominent local artists are speaking out in support of a new Vancouver Art Gallery at Larwill Park

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Danish architect Bjarke Ingels’ mixed-use tower at Beach and Howe gets an enthusiastic response from the City of Vancouver’s design panel

previously: Watch architect Bjarke Ingels’ Yes Is More lecture at the Chan Centre

Real estate marketers MAC are caught misrepresenting their employees as prospective condo buyers on local TV news

Bob Mackin examines Vancouver is Awesome editor Bob Kronbauer’s financial relationship with Rennie Marketing Systems to promote the Olympic Village

Pool, a “collaborative pop-up shop”, is at the Chinatown Experiment next weekend

hosted by Landon Dix, and featuring Henderson Dry Goods, Fleet Objects, Solis Jewelry, Gailan Ngan, and Derek Dix; RSVP on Facebook to next Friday’s opening

Swiss ‘starchitect’ Harry Gugger will pay homage to the historic Vancouver Stock Exchange building for Credit Suisse

Gugger was the partner in charge of the ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium in Beijing while at Herzog & de Meuron; previously: Vancouver city council approves Credit Suisse’s proposal for a 30-storey office building downtown

Christina Ricci will star in the TV series based on Douglas Coupland’s novel Girlfriend in a Coma

previously: NBC has ordered a pilot for a single-camera comedy based on Douglas Coupland’s novel Girlfriend in a Coma