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Intro: 2015 Top10 Watch List

Intro: 2015 Top10 Watch List

Welcome to our 15th Annual Top10 Watch List. Vancouver is a growing, vibrant and dynamic city, but the rush for new development can present major challenges in the conservation of significant aspects of out historic legacy. This year we see new threats, old threats...
1. Schools: Point Grey Secondary (1929)

1. Schools: Point Grey Secondary (1929)

Point Grey Secondary School is an important and impressive historical landmark in the Kerrisdale community. Built in 1929, it is one of Vancouver’s oldest, prominent and significant high schools. PGSS is of important heritage value for its role in the community and...
2. St. Paul’s Hospital: Burrard Building (1912-13, 1930s)

2. St. Paul’s Hospital: Burrard Building (1912-13, 1930s)

On April 13, 2015 the Province of BC and Providence Health Care announced plans to move St. Paul’s Hospital from its historic Burrard Street location to a new health care campus on Station Street. The existing site would be sold for residential and commercial...
3. Oakridge United Church (1949)

3. Oakridge United Church (1949)

[Update – the church was demolished March 2, 2018] As attendance continues to decline at many Vancouver churches, many of our significant spiritual heritage buildings are threatened. When these buildings close, Vancouver communities lose more than Sunday worship...
4. Marine Garden’s Townhouses: Mid-century Housing Innovation

4. Marine Garden’s Townhouses: Mid-century Housing Innovation

In 1976 the world came to Vancouver to experience Habitat ’76, the United Nations conference on housing. Habitat ‘76 was a United Nations-sponsored conference that brought together figures like Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Mead and Mother Teresa to discuss and explore...