Peter Cardew News Today

On a tiny street in West Vancouver, covering barely 2,000 square feet of floor space, this little home designed for two artists has had an outsized influence on Vancouver’s architecture and visual arts community. We take a look inside the loving preservation of a masterpiece that was almost destroyed.

Where a 1½ storey detached house one stood, architect D’Arcy Jones has created a bold 12-plex moulded to a temperate climate

On February 13-20, there will be a single-artist, timed online auction available for all of Esias Bosch’s (1923 – 2012) devoted fans. 

TEXT Trevor Boddy For over a century, ‘architectural zoos’ have been permanent collections of architectural animals—one example each from the leading species of designers. The most famous of these is the Weissenhofsiedlung, which in 1927 collected a range of modernist housing by Le Corbusier, Mies, Gropius, Hans Scharoun, Bruno Taut and others on a Stuttgart […]

The City of Vancouver has released a report calling for a major densification of Vancouver’s False Creek South. The proposal presented this week by staff to Vancouver City Council would triple the number of homes in this iconic Vancouver waterfront neighbourhood. Stretching along the south edge of False Creek from the Burrard to Cambie bridges, […]

EDITORS Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey CHAPTER AUTHORS George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo, Colin Ripley, Lola Sheppard, David Theodore, Larry Wayne Richards, Adele Weder, Mason White The book Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present is the first comprehensive volume on modern and contemporary Canadian architecture to […]

This past week, the Vancouver architecture community was saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Cardew, an architectural titan and longtime champion for design excellence in Vancouver. As a recipient of numerous awards over the years, including the RAIC Gold Medal in 2012, his career touched both professionals and academics alike in a half-century tenure that has influenced multiple generations of local architects. With a multi-storied career that includes his passing up a partnership at a p...