In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Henriquez Partners Architects' designs for a trio of skyscrapers in Vancouver, including the city's first supertall skyscraper. More about "The only thing these towers are missing are feather boas" says commenter
Local studio Henriquez Partners Architects has designed a trio of skyscrapers in Vancouver, Canada, including the city's first supertall skyscraper. More about Vancouver's first supertall skyscraper informed by "ancient glass sea sponge reefs"
The Rosemary Brown Recreation Centre was designed by HCMA Architecture + Design to depart from the "dated model" of typical ice arenas, which tend to be cold, windowless and framed with steel. More about Mass timber adds visual warmth to British Columbia ice arena by HCMA
The angled glass facade of a modernist icon in Vancouver now covers a community cafe and bar designed by SML Studio Architecture. More about SML Studio Architecture creates cafe and bar inside Vancouver's Waterfall Building
A near-continuous curved facade and slatted screens have been included to create privacy for this house designed by Canadian studio Architecture Building Culture on a prominent rocky outcrop in West Vancouver. More about Architecture Building Culture wraps white curved facade around Piano House in Canada
Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has transformed a dilapidated, 120-year-old building into a cedar-clad family house, leaving historical materials exposed in the updated interiors. More about D'Arcy Jones Architects overhauls condemned Vancouver house
Mass timber and ample glazing feature at an elementary school in northeast Vancouver, which was designed by Canadian firm HCMA Architecture + Design to depart from the "dark, insular schools of the past". More about Mass timber forms structural system of Vancouver school by HCMA
Vancouver Art Gallery has parted ways with Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron after nearly a decade of planning a new building in Vancouver's downtown. More about Vancouver Art Gallery abandons Herzog & de Meuron plan after a decade
Canadian studio Ste Marie has designed Meo cocktail bar and restaurant influenced by 1970s and '80s Hong Kong in Vancouver's Chinatown, using pink hues, floral patterns and red accents. More about Hong Kong's "love motels" influence Vancouver restaurant by Ste Marie
Local designers Andrea McLean Studio and the Airey Group have teamed up to create a light, urban beach house with open roof decks and a folding screened facade in Vancouver, British Columbia. More about The Airey Group and Andrea McLean open Vancouver beach house with folding facade
We've rounded up 10 independent studios creating furniture and design objects in Vancouver, Canada, as part of our North American Design 2024 series. More about Ten independent furniture design studios operating in Vancouver
Canadian architecture studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is "forward-looking without erasing an old building's original charm". More about D'Arcy Jones adds subterranean garage to century-old house in Vancouver
Local design studio McLeod Bovell has completed a seaside home with a dramatic cantilever and multiple lightwells in West Vancouver, British Columbia. More about McLeod Bovell uses cantilevers in "fortress-like" West Vancouver house
American architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has created a glass-clad skyscraper with an undulating facade and parapets on a sloped site in downtown Vancouver. More about KPF creates skyscraper with "aqueous form" in Vancouver
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features designs for residential skyscrapers in Vancouver, Canada. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features skyscrapers planned for indigenous land
Revery Architecture has designed the Sen̓áḵw residential skyscrapers for the Squamish Nation's land in Vancouver, which will aid economic development and "benefit all Canadians", according to the Indigenous group. More about Skyscrapers planned for Indigenous land "look like the future of Vancouver"
Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. More about SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in "bold" Vancouver house
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma & Associates has completed a skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada, with a curved form and a semi-enclosed amphitheatre at its base. More about Kengo Kuma unveils "sculptural and iconic" skyscraper in Vancouver
Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia. More about Splyce Design centres Vancouver house around "weightless" staircase
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features MVRDV's reimagining of Vancouver's waterfront in response to rising sea levels. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features MVRDV's "awfully idyllic" 2100 vision for Vancouver's waterfront