Vancouver Architecture - 30 June
Four hours in Vancouver's central business district with fellow photographer and friend, Paul Lengyell.
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Angular Gastown Building
The many "flatiron" buildings in Vancouver's Gastown came about as a result of two intersecting city planning grids. The first followed the original high-tide waterline of the Burrard Inlet. The second was a grid layout, the result of a later survey by the Canadian Pacific Railway to establish the soon-to-be-incorporated City of Vancouver.
The intersections of the two non-parallel surveys conflicted with each other yielding many acutely angled parcels of land. The subsequent build-form is a product of constructing right out to the property lines, thereby maximizing the leasable floor space area.
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