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Stereoscopic animation from an original stereoscopic photo made December 21, 2008.Corner of Georgia and Burrard Streets, downtown Vancouver.
Stereoscopic animation from an original stereoscopic photo made December 21, 2008.Corner of Georgia and Burrard Streets, downtown Vancouver.
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City of the Future 1933 and 1935
Aug. 6th, 2009 07:22 pm
Some of the inspiration for my City of the Future series of infrared photographs. |
Terminal City 1992
Jul. 12th, 2009 10:10 pm
Here's a picture from Stanley Park near Dead Man's Island, looking back toward the city. You can clearly see how much infill there has been in the last 17 years. Notice that the Marine Building on the far right sits on the natural shore, overlooking the rail-yard. The large arched window is street-level now . There are two blocks north of the Marine Building now, Cordova St. and Canada Place, and the new Convention Centre also sits north of the Marine Building such that now the distance from the natural shoreline to the water is about half a kilometre. For the sake of comparison, the picture below was taken this January of this year on Cordova St. You can also see the CP Ferry in dock. This is was a commercial-only ferry that carried tucks and rail-cars from the inner harbour in Nanaimo. It docked directly across for former truck-tunnel that was dug in the 1930's so the heavy trucks could travel between this railyard and the one on the False Creek Flats. Didn't know there was a tunnel for trucks to drive underneath Vancouver? That's because it got repurposed in the 1980's for the SkyTrain. The tunnel the SkyTrain runs through was built over half a century before the SkyTrain. Notice the buildings along Hasting Street to the right of the Marine Building. All of them have plazas on the ground floor that overlook the water that people used to sit and have their lunches on. All of these now have a "view" of Cordova St. and the towers across the street and almost never get used for anything anymore. To the left of the black office tower is a small park, Portal Park, that used to also be a nice place to look over the water. No tower was ever built there because the tunnel entrance is right below it, so there is no way to make a deep foundation. That park isn't very nice anymore since there are now fairly busy streets on three sides of it and the arched portal sculpture/building that is the park's main feature gets used as shelter by homeless people. |
Vancouver 1962 or so.
Jul. 11th, 2009 02:00 pm
Going back another 30 years from my last couple of posts, this is a Blacktop Cabs receipt card from the early 1960's. The only skyscraper visible is the Marine Building at Hastings and Burrard. On the very far right you can see just a sliver of the Hotel Vancouver. Note the oil tanks at the waterfront and just to left of them, in the shadows below the Marine Building, the rail cars. Now there are apartment towers where those tanks were. The marina in the middle foreground is the is the area where the Coal Harbour Community Centre is now. The row of trees with houses behind them that you can see just above the oil tanks would have had Pender Street addresses (up until about 1996, Hastings ended at Bute St.) The brownstone apartment block visible just to the right of the houses, directly below the "5" is the Banffshire Apartments at the corner of Jervis and Melville. And that phone number still works. These days they take a little longer than three minutes to show up, though. |
More From 1992
Jul. 10th, 2009 10:54 pm
Cathedral Place (left) has only just replaced the old Art-Deco glory of the Medical Arts Building as a monument of fibreglass, post-Modern crap (can you tell I don't like that building?) There is no Olympic countdown clock in front of the VAG. Eaton's is still Canadian and spelled with capital letters. There are no towers in Yaletown and the Expo '86 site is still a vacant wasteland while Concord Pacific and the provincial government argue over who should pay for the site remediation. And if you look at False Creek at the far right of the picture you can just make out a white smudge that is the ill-fated McBarge, which now floats derelict in the Burrard Inlet. Oddly enough I happen to own a complete set of blueprints to the McBarge. |
Looking the other way we see, a surprising amount of nothing. The Qube is still an office tower housing Westcoast Energy. There is no BC Gas/Terasen Building yet (CORRECTION: the BC Gas Building was there as of 1992, it's just blocked in this view by the MacBlo building.) Only one apartment tower has been built west of the venerable Banff apartments (painted white at this point). The "waffle building" still belongs to MacMillan Bloedel which, like Eaton's, hasn't been bought by Americans yet. The Royal Bank tower, to the left, is still the tallest building in Vancouver. |
Not So Long Ago
Jul. 9th, 2009 10:41 pm
October 1992. Only geeks have e-mail. No digital cameras. And in this picture, no Wall Centre, no Scotiabank Cinema, and the "Electra" is still the headquarters of BC Hydro and home of the noon whistle and the funkiest damn Christmas tree in town. The Motor Inn across from St. Paul's, however, is unchanging and eternal. I rediscovered a box of slides I shot from the top floor of the Hyatt at Georgia and Burrard. More to come. |
I went out today to take some pictures of the fog that has descended on Vancouver for the past several days. It wasn't as successful a sojourn as I was hoping since the fog burned off today, unlike yesterday when it lingered all day. So it goes when you are counting on the weather. |
Blocking My View
Jul. 31st, 2008 11:31 pm
For an explanation of the title see this post. |
( Larger, full colour )
Bentall Towers
Feb. 23rd, 2008 12:25 pm
Vancouver, BC. The Bentall Towers at night with Burrard Station in the lower right and Harbour Centre in the distance. |
Lovely Fog
Feb. 18th, 2008 10:01 pm
There was a lovely fog this morning. These were taken through a window with my pocket camera, so there are reflections, noise, and other problems that relegate these to the realm of "snapshots" - but still, worth sharing. |
Tanker cars from the Ioco transfer station passing through Old Orchard Park, Port Moody. |
Chicago from the Sears Tower
Mar. 24th, 2005 05:52 pm
Looking east
Looking south north east. The hotel we stayed at is the building with the light-well in the centre at centre right of the photo. Our room was in the "new" wing which is just barely visible at the extreme right of the image. The large fountain is the Buckingham Fountain. You may know it from the opening credits of "Married with Children". |
Looking west. Not much this way is there?
Up and Down
Mar. 19th, 2005 11:38 pm
Looking down from a landmark building. See if you can guess the city before following the cut. The picture under the cut is looking up from the opposing angle this one is looking down from, from the position of the crosswalk you can see at the top edge of the frame at the centre. |
Coming Soon to a LiveJournal Near You...
Nov. 8th, 2004 09:08 pm
...a tour of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
The AIC is the building on the right. |
Tintoreto Rubens Velasquez... |
Chicago Public Library
Aug. 30th, 2004 06:30 pm
The main branch of the public library in Chicago. |
A closer view of the roof ornamentation. |
Chicago Board of Trade
Aug. 29th, 2004 11:11 pm
Looking up from the street:
Looking down from the Sears Tower:
(Larry, you can see that high-rise prison near the top right of this one)
