Wow, this one spot, in a Fairview alley on the West side of South Granville, looks like a Michael Mann film set. The bright sunshine helps, but there's no denying, Vancouver is a lot more colourful than it used to be! Click the image to enlarge.
When I moved to sleepy Vancouverburg in 1980, the dominant colour of the city was green -- sea-green, tree-green, or Hotel Vancouver-green. The later being a large, château style white-ish masonry building, with a large, peaked, copper-clad roof, nicely aged to a green patina, or verdigris. It's on of the grand hotels built by the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) across Canada, along the route of the transcontinental railway. The present building is the third Hotel Vancouver, completed in 1939, and immediately became a dominant icon of the Vancouver skyline. By the 1970s, architects were more than happy to have their glass-and-steel towers bask in the reflected glory of the Vancouver Hotel. Blue-green is still a dominant colour of building glass, anodized aluminium, and painted steel, all over the city, but there are lots of brighter accents now -- It's not quite so monochromatic. Click the above found images to enlarge them.
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No reflection on the original. The Hotel Vancouver; often imitated in newer Vancouver architecture, but never equaled.[/caption]
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