Interesting places in Granville Mall:

HSBC Building		Vancouver Art Gallery
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver		Sears Canada
The Kingston Hotel Bed & Breakfast		Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Rosewood Hotel Georgia		Canaccord Tower
Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver		Future Shop - Downtown, Vancouver - Robson St at Granville St
The Bay Vancouver Downtown

the Granville Mall is part of Vancouver , False Creek , Downtown , Pacific Centre .

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Hotel Georgia original key - May 7, 1927
Made by Heritage Vancouver
84 years ago today, May 7, 1927, Vancouver's Hotel Georgia opened. After a 2010/11 full restoration, it reopens July 15, 2011. From Canada's Historic Places: The heritage value of the Hotel Georgia lies in its contextual, historical and architectural significance. The Hotel Georgia is one of Vancouver’s most prominent heritage buildings. Located at the corner of West Georgia and Howe streets, it is one of a trio of distinguished buildings – together with the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Hotel Vancouver – which frame one of the city’s few downtown open spaces. The Hotel Georgia was built in 1926-27 in the Georgian Revival style to the designs of R.T. Garrow and John Graham Sr., the latter a prominent Seattle architect. The building has been host to many diplomats and distinguished guests in its almost 80 year history and has played an important role in Vancouver social life. Like a classical column, the building’s exterior is divided into three parts, a strong base, elegant cap and simple shaft in between. Elegant and restrained detailing includes tall mullioned windows on the second floor and a balustraded parapet with urn finials at the top of the building. The interior features a richly-detailed wood-paneled lobby, ballroom, ground level terrazzo flooring, plasterwork, curved staircase, and handsomely-appointed meeting rooms on the second floor. Character-Defining Elements: Key exterior elements that define the heritage character of the Hotel Georgia’s Georgian Revival architectural style include its: - prominent and highly-visible corner location in downtown Vancouver - orientation to the Vancouver Art Gallery square across the street - simple rectangular building mass and shape - principal street facades facing West Georgia and Howe Street - elegant and restrained articulation of building mass with base, shaft and capital sections - use of Georgian Revival architectural motifs - masonry construction, with detailing in granite, cast stone and beige brick - regular and elegant pattern of punched window openings - projecting marquee on both street facades Key elements that define the heritage character of the Hotel Georgia’s interior include its: - decorative balustrade and urns at parapet level - lobby with Georgian Revival elements including pilasters, columns, mouldings and paneling with elaborated elevator surrounds, terrazzo floors, metal balustrades, mail box and clock - ballroom with arched openings, decorative plaster cornice and chandelier mouldings - ballroom foyer with decorative mouldings and reliefs, drop beams and marble baseboards - fireplace and mirrored surround in the Tudor Room - York Room with all plaster mouldings and surfaces, stained glass, chandeliers and arched entry door openings - remains of former promenade space, with decorative plaster mouldings, drop beams, ceiling reliefs and tall mullioned windows - former basement pub with arches and Tudor Revival style decorative finishes


Consumption
Made by PiscesDreamer
Coffee Consumption On Robson Street by Mia Ikeda photographs on paper In my work, Coffee Consumption on Robson Street, I focused on how the city of Vancouver is shaped by coffee culture. I was interested in how, in every coffee shop, customers are expected to get a to go cup even though they are most likely staying there for a while. In order to highlight the idea of how many people consume a coffee per day, I took photographs of empty cups in garbage cans all within one day. This is a large public art display of a collection of photos exclusively of Vancouver's distinctive metal garbage bins. The larger than life images definitely stood out downtown on busy Granville Street. It should help make people notice how much garbage is generated for the sake of convenience. I always found it odd that as a city that takes great pride in being so green, there is a noticeable lack of recycling options on the streets. With the reported increase of street food vendors this year, there will be an even greater need to address the inevitable additional food wrappers, utensils and containers that will be added to all the current take-out containers and disposable cups from local eateries and coffee shops that are tossed away. www.mymia.ca/ www.intransitbc.ca/art Granville Street, Vancouver


[View of the second Hotel Vancouver's roof garden]
Made by City of Vancouver Archives
Item Number: PAN N120 Physical Description: 1 photograph: nitrate negative; 20 x 55 cm on 20 x 135 cm film sheet Date of Creation: 7 July 1916 Scope and Content: Photograph shows the roof garden and upper floors with moose and bison architectural details and Deadman's Island. Photographer: Moore, W.J. Statement of Responsibility: Canadian Photo Co. Vancouver B.C. Private Records #: Add. MSS. 54 Part of Fonds: Major Matthews collection Part of Series: Collected photographs Part of Subseries: W.J. Moore Cirkut negatives Media Note: Cirkut negative consists of two separate images (PAN N120 and PAN N120A) on one negative. There are some out of focus vertical bands on this Cirkut negative. Numbering Note: Photographer's number 509P Subject and Geographical Classifications: Hotels, taverns, etc. Mountains - British Columbia Buildings Panoramic photographs Vancouver (B.C.)


[View of the second Hotel Vancouver's roof garden]
Made by City of Vancouver Archives
Item Number: PAN N120A Physical Description: 1 photograph: nitrate negative; 20 x 80 cm on 20 x 135 cm film sheet Date of Creation: 7 July 1916 Scope and Content: Photograph shows a view looking north of the hotel's roof garden and surrounding streets, buildings, Coal Harbour, Stanley Park and Deadman's Island. Photographer: Moore, W.J. Statement of Responsibility: Canadian Photo Co. Vancouver B.C. Private Records #: Add. MSS. 54 Part of Fonds: Major Matthews collection Part of Series: Collected photographs Part of Subseries: W.J. Moore Cirkut negatives Media Note: Cirkut negative consists of two separate images (PAN N120 and PAN N120A) on one negative. There are some out of focus vertical bands on this Cirkut negative. Numbering Note: Photographer's number 508P Subject and Geographical Classifications: Hotels, taverns, etc. Mountains - British Columbia Buildings Vancouver (B.C.)


Happy Cannabis Day!
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
Mari and I skipped checking out the regular Canada Day festivities to see what was happening at the Cannabis Day celebration. Only in Vancouver can you assemble a group of cannabis enthusiasts, have a smoke-in, an open marijuana marketplace and have no kind of police interaction. I should also point out here that I don't use cannabis, nor encourage its use, but I certainly think prohibition isn't doing our society any favours at all. Vancouver Art Gallery, West Georgia Street, downtown Vancouver. July 1, 2011. Oh yeah... happy Canada Day too! (I got a great Canada Day present: a toasted shutter on my Olympus E-3... with just 24,425 shutter activations on a shutter that's actually rated for 150,000. Bummer! Hopefully Olympus will cover that under warranty...)


Vancouver Art Gallery
Made by * Ahmad Kavousian *
Designed as a courthouse by B.C.'s leading early-20th-century architect Francis Rattenbury (the architect of Victoria's Empress hotel and the Parliament buildings), and renovated into an art gallery by B.C.'s leading late-20th-century architect Arthur Erickson, the VAG is an excellent stop to see what sets Canadian and West Coast art apart from the rest of the world. There is an impressive collection of paintings by B.C. native Emily Carr, as well as examples of a unique Canadian art style created during the 1920s by members of the Group of Seven, which included Vancouver painter Fred Varley. The VAG also hosts rotating exhibits of contemporary sculpture, graphics, photography, and video art, from around the world. Geared to younger audiences, the Annex Gallery offers rotating presentations of visually exciting educational exhibits.


[View of the second Hotel under construction]
Made by City of Vancouver Archives
Item Number: PAN NXV Physical Description: 1 photograph: nitrate negative; 20 x 110 cm Date of Creation: [ca. 1915] Scope and Content: Photograph also shows the Birks building to the left and the court house and other buildings to the right. Photographer: Moore, W.J. Statement of Responsibility: W.J. Moore Photo Private Records #: Add. MSS. 54 Part of Fonds: Major Matthews collection Part of Series: Collected photographs Part of Subseries: W.J. Moore Cirkut negatives Media Note: Cirkut Physical Condition: Piece missing top left edge, mirroring throughout. Numbering Note: Photographer's number #1505 Subject and Geographical Classifications: Hotels, taverns, etc. Stores, Retail Courthouses Panoramic photographs Vancouver (B.C.)


Messages to support the city
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
Disgust. Shock. Dismay. Shame. Disappointment. Words can't describe my feelings following the rioting that hit Vancouver following the Canucks loss in Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final. So it's been especially reassuring to see concerned Vancouverites come out to clean up the mess and even more people condemning the actions of a very small group of people. All day long crowds have been swarming the plywood covering what were once windows of the Hudson's Bay Company, leaving messages of support. Granville Street, Vancouver. June 16, 2011.


Power Block detail (1929)
Made by Heritage Vancouver
817-819 Granville, Vancouver, BC Site is currently part of a development proposal DE414406 (Feb 2011), that would see only the facade retained of this building. Architects: N. S. Hoffar, 1888 (rear); Townley & Matheson, 1929 (front) This rare example of an art deco exterior employing colourful terra cotta with Egyptian overtones was designed by the architects of Vancouver's city hall as part of a 1929 building renovation. The interior structure dates form a saloon built in 1888 for Captain William Power, then known as the Mayor of North Vancouver's Moodyville. It was expanded and renovated by owner Dominic Burns of the Burns meat-packing family in 1911, the year he also built the nearby 14-storey Vancouver Block with its huge landmark clock.


Sprinklers repeat! (AKA "It's always f/2.8")
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
I think the thing I love most about the E-P1 is how pretty much any lens ever made can somehow be fitted to it and made to work. And because of that, I've been craving something a little more oddball than my existing legacy glass for a while. As luck would have it, I came across a Pentax Auto 110 18mm f/2.8 lens with a micro Four Thirds adapter for sale locally (thanks, Joe!) and decided it needed to get in my bag. Of course my trip back from picking the lens up meant stopping a few times to give the little guy a test. And even with its fixed f/2.8 aperture, it's really a lot of fun. Granville Street, downtown Vancouver. August 28, 2010.


Photography at Work (ShutterClock submission)
Made by mylin
I do photography every day at work (lucky me!), so it was easy enough to take a photo for the ShutterClock project. I work in an optometry clinic, and one of my duties is to do retinal photography for every patient before they go in for their eye exam. That's what I was doing at 1:00 PM Pacific time. This is the back surface of someone's right eye. (Know the red eye that people get in photographs? This is it.) The yellow spot is the optic nerve, where it connects to the eye. The darker area is the macula, the centre of the back of the eye. All the red tissue is the retina, the tissue that lines the inside of the eye. (This is the I use for this kind of photography.)


Vancouver Block, Granville Street
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
What can I say? It's been a bad week for gear acquisition, I guess. But there was no way I was letting go of the very-reasonably priced, used Olympus Zuiko Digital 8mm f/3.5 fisheye that popped up on craigslist this week. I've wanted one pretty much ever since I bought my first Four Thirds camera (an E-300, almost five years ago). The price was definitely right, so I acted very quickly and got lucky this time around. (I missed out on the last couple that came up for sale at a good price.) Anyhow, I'm definitely looking forward to fisheye fun at home in Vancouver and in Japan in the spring! Granville Street, downtown Vancouver. October 13, 2010.


go canucks go!
Made by bluechameleon
This city has exploded into insanity and mayhem as the Vancouver Canucks get closer to winning the Stanley Cup. After last nights win at Rogers Arena over the Boston Bruins the city became a frenzy of fans showing their support with painted faces, hockey jersey's and screaming their heads off until early this morning. Photoblog Thanks to the Georgia Straight for picking my photo for Photo of the Week. Cheers!


Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
Made by Uncle Buddha
The Cultural Olympiad began Jan. 21 and runs through to March. It includes music, dance, visual arts, literary arts, theatre, film and new media. In the Same Boat by Chien Chun-Cheng is part of the LunarFest lantern festival. The plaque reads: The lantern combined Chinese caligraphy wit three-dimensional sculpture to find teh boorder between lauguage, visual art and physical space. The use of the three figures represents th different races, while the boat with grass is a call for humans to reconnect with nature. The caligraphy is from the Da Tung Passages and conveys ideas of love and peace.


Game Two celebration!
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
Vancouver's Alexander Burrows scored 11 seconds into the first period of overtime, making it two wins for Vancouver in this year's Stanley Cup final. Saturday evening, finally sunny and warm, and the streets downtown were crazy, just like they were during the 2010 Winter Games. (The last game saw over 40,000 fans celebrating downtown... I'm sure there were even more tonight!) Two more to go. Go, Canucks, go! (Sorry, !) Granville Street, downtown Vancouver. June 4, 2011.


Featured Artist at aVAG
Made by a.Vision
I am lucky to be picked as the Featured Artist at the Art Rental and Sales of the Associate of the Vancouver Art Gallery for the next three months! www.artrentalandsales.com/ To see which works I have available there, visit their website: www.artrentalandsales.com/artists.php?artistID=378&st.... This series is a black and white series printed on a metallic photographic paper and are all limited editions.


Vancouver Riot Aftermath
Made by Uncle Buddha
Vancouverites trying to regain a shred of dignity in the aftermath of the riot last night. Most of the messages were thanking the police and emergency crews for their courage and hard work. I can't find words to describe the disappointment, disgust and sadness I feel this morning. The great pride I've felt about my city for the last two years has just been ripped out. I hope people come forward and help the police bring all those involved to justice.


Winners
Made by Drew Makepeace
The is the basement of the Royal Bank of Canada branch that once stood at Robson & Granville Streets in Vancouver, BC. The graffiti was added once the basement was exposed, but was later destroyed in the final stages of the demolition. One of the new stores built on the site is Winners. Update: I learned this was done by Norman Yeung. Check out his work here: www.normanyeung.com/


Saving the scariest for last...
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
The great thing about a Zombie Walk is the seemingly endless photo ops. I'm definitely sitting on a pile of unused shots again this year, but I figure my Flickr contacts that regularly follow my photostream are either all zombie'd out now or just too frightened to look. So, here we go: done. And I made sure to save the most frightening image to end off the series! 2010 Vancouver Zombie Walk, Robson Square, Vancouver. August 21, 2010.


Canon PowerShot S95 Low Light Sample
Made by christianyves
This photo is a JPEG straight out of camera. Aspect ratio crop and watermark added in Lightroom 3--no other post work was done. The Canon S95 is my new go-to camera when I don't feel like lugging my D700 around town to take shots in low light. The new Hybrid IS, stereo 720p HD video recording and ergonomic improvements make the S95 a worthy, if slight, upgrade to the already fantastic S90. Full review on my blog soon. Stay tuned!