Thursday, November 26, 2009

on the waterfront


The SALT Building located in the southeast False Creek development [at First Avenue and Manitoba Street] was built in the 1930's on what was then the original shoreline...
designated as a heritage building, it had been a raw salt refinery and was later used for recycling paper products...
it is now being renovated into a social hub for the 2010 Winter Olympics Athletes Village and will serve as a cafe/bakery/restaurant/brewpub post games...



grain elevators on the south shore of Burrard Inlet loom high above the industrial docks off Powell Street in east Vancouver...

Friday, November 20, 2009

fire on main



what was once Zocalo [above] and other eateries at Main St. and Broadway...



Thursday, November 12, 2009

shrink-wrapped

at Woodland Drive and East Broadway, a shimmering ocean liner parked behind a condemned bungalow...

Monday, November 2, 2009

random walls on commercial drive

make-shift "art gallery" on a disintegrating wall...

window art on East 2nd just off Commercial...

beware where you park, even if it is only for a dollar...

a poster for my son's first "Four for Four" show that he organized...[Half-Chinese is his very cool band!]