Interesting places in Pacific Centre:

HSBC Building		Cathedral Place
Sears Canada		Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Rosewood Hotel Georgia		Parkwell Plaza
Canaccord Tower		Sutton Group Realty Services
Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver		Pender Place
The Bay Vancouver Downtown		777 Dunsmuir
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the Pacific Centre is part of Vancouver , False Creek , Downtown .

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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


Lady on Building
Made by Bob_2006
925 West Georgia Street and 639 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC. Paul Merrick Architect, 1990-91. Reflecting a building's context is a prime doctrine of Post-Modernism and it's a doctrine well- heeded in this fun-to-visit complex. The name acknowledges Christ Church Cathedral next door. The massing, ornament and sculpted nurses are reminders of the Art Deco Georgia Medical Dental Building which the tower replaced, while the roof and gargoyles respond to the Hotel Vancouver across the street. The lobby offers a delightful potpourri of Art Deco-inspired features. Behind Cathedral Place is the Canadian Craft Museum and its serene grassed cloister (Christopher Phillips and Associates), two gems too often missed by passers-by. The Greater Vancouver Book The old Georgia Dental Medical Building was built in 1929 and had 17 floors. It was demolished Sunday morning, 28 May 1989. The old Georgia Dental Medical Building March 1, 1930


[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.


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.


Parking along the Dunsmuir Bikeway
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
My coworker bought the new Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 for his E-PL1 so I had to give the pair a try during a lunch break. I definitely found using the 300mm end of the lens a real challenge in an urban setting, causing me to need to rethink compositionally. The reach of a 600mm equivalent focal length is a little bit insane! And given my love for the little 20mm f/1.7 pancake on the PEN, I don't think I'd use something like this enough to justify the $900 price tag. Oh well. Thanks for the playtime anyhow, Tom! I hope you enjoy the new lens! (And hopefully you'll let me take it for another go again one day too!) Dunsmuir Street, downtown Vancouver. February 22, 2011.


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.)


Sephora
Made by cabbit
I was asked to stop taking photos of this door by a security guard for the Pacific Centre Mall. It's just a simple door into the construction site for a new cosmetics store called Sephora, but apparently the mall discourages photography. I explained to the security guard that I was standing on the sidewalk, which is public property, and could talk photos of anything I chose. It'd be different if I were inside the mall, but since I was outside I wasn't going to stop taking photos. I finished getting the shot I wanted and continued on my way. I think it was the first time a security guard has ever actually told me to stop taking photos, I was kind of surprised to hear it.


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.


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.


Couch Potatoes - 4/20 at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Made by cabbit
April 20, 2011 -- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada -- Two participants in the 4/20 celebration sit on a couch outside the Vancouver Art Gallery and review their video footage. -- PHOTO BY ANDREW FERGUSON --- Film EXIF Camera: Hasselblad 501C Film: Fuji Velvia 50 Focal Length: 80mm Aperture: f/4? Shutter: 1/250? Metering: LightMeter app Processing: Minor dust removal, sharpening, & minor contrast adjustment Handheld


Shopping time at BOOKOFF
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
While a good number of my Flickr contacts have seen a scene like this countless times, they probably haven't seen it with dollars on the signs instead of yen. Yes, this is the inside of Vancouver's BOOKOFF, so we're very much in Canada still and not Japan. I'd been thinking about a shot like this on a few of my visits to BOOKOFF, but this time I actually decided it was time to get the shot in the bag. August 9, 2009.


"The electro-mechanical heart"
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
I suppose it's technically true that the heart is little more than a key component in the human machine... but it always feels as if it's got more going on than it's role to push blood through our circulatory systems. And though I usually stray away from images celebrating special days, I was quite struck when I passed by this window display at Holt Renfrew. So, there you have it... Happy Valentine's Day! Granville Street, downtown Vancouver. February 10, 2011.


"Gingerbeard, Man!"
Made by Eric Flexyourhead
Morgan and his beard have showed up in my photostream before, but I'm never one to throw away a decent photo op. So thanks to Morgan for coming out for lunch, enduring my praise and yet another demo of the E-P1... and for the awesome title! Eating lunch on Granville Street, downtown Vancouver. April 19, 2010.


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.