Tag: Vancouver

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  Vancouver Eco Fashion Week Wrap-Up: 8 Designers Doing Great with Green

  From reconstructed vintage to hand-dyed natural fibers, these earth-loving designers prove that style need not be sacrificed in the name of sustainability.

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  Prophetik’s Hand-Dyed Fabrics and Edgy Romance Enchant at Vancouver Eco Fashion Week

  Gorgeous natural fibers dyed with homegrown plant matter push Garner’s elegant courtly looks over the top in terms of luminous beauty.

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  Skoah Skin Care Helps Conquer Vexing Hotel Waste Problem

  The Vancouver-based skincare company has teamed up with The Revere in Boston to tackle plastic chaos.

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  N1 Kitchen System Is Designed For Outdoors, But Would Look Good Anywhere

  Kyle Thacker's design has some clever ideas for a folding portable kitchen. He should bring it inside.

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  Hey Architects, Can You Design a 100-Mile House?

  The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia issues a challenge: Design a four-person home made entirely of materials from a 100-mile radius around Vancouver.

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  SuitSak Is A Garment Bag For Your Back

  Last week I showed a new British design for a cycling backpack for suits; turns out that there is already one on the market, made in Vancouver.

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  Living with Less: 229 square foot lofts have everything you need to live

  Conversion of a Vancouver Single Room Occupancy flophouse into tiny apartments shows how to get a lot out of a little

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  Inside CIRS at University of British Columbia -- "North America's Greenest Building"

  The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability is a testbed of green design.

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  Peter Busby of Perkins + Will Canada On Green Building (Interview)

  Peter Busby of Perkins + Will Canada has designed what has been called "The greenest building in North America", the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability in Vancouver. He is now working on Canada's first

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  The End of the Glass Box Is Nigh

  There are a lot of reasons that architects design condos with floor to ceiling glass; people like views and they can look very elegant in the right hands. But the main reason they do it is cost;

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  Green Sports Alliance to Help Pro Leagues Go Green

  Yesterday, Seattle's Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners, saw the launch of an organization that will help professional sports leagues reduce their environmental impact. The Green Sports Alliance (GSA) has

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  Myths About Green Building Busted, Just In Time, Too.

  Many have said that this is the year for the green building revolution to take off; Others see increasing challenges ahead. Chris Cheatham predicts more battles

• Zero Carbon Carnage: Cyclist Hit By Electric Vehicle During Zero Emissions Race

  Our two favourite solutions for the future of transport, bikes and electric cars, interacted in Vancouver on Friday. The Zero Emissions Race was wheeling through Vancouver when a cyclist apparently rode off the sidewalk and

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  Jenesys Flatpack Homes: The Real Thing Looks Better Than The Renderings

  Windows can be a problem for architects; We probably use too many of them, not for the light they bring in but for the way they look. But even the best windows have only a fraction of the insulating quality of the walls

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  L41 House Packs A Lot Into 220 Square Feet

  Once again we see how in architecture and design, regulation drives innovation; when Vancouver allows backlane housing, we get an explosion of ideas and prototypes. Architect Michael Katz and designer Janet Corne offer the L41 ("all for one") that

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  Yoga for School Credit--Gym Class Just Got Way Fun

  Here's one that would've rocked my socks off as a kid: yoga--in school. Doubly so if it replaced the dreaded P.E., where military push-ups and getting pegged by a

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  BC Premier Blames "Spring Olympics" on Global Warming

  A lot of us winced whenever anyone conflated the lack of snow on Cypress Mountain in Vancouver with climate change; Vancouver is often springlike in February and this is about weather, not climate. People were questioning Cypress as a venue

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  ContainR Theatre Shows Sports Films During Olympics

  Can't afford a ticket to an event? Go hang out in the ContainR, a "street installation at the nexus of video, public art and urban design, sitting at the cross roads of mountain and urban culture, art and sports cinema, embracing public