Apartment building from Fairview's blue period

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This apartment building in Fairview  is reminiscent of the 30-plus buildings put up across Vancouver in the 1960s and 1970s by the Wosk brothers.

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Most Wosk buildings were clad in similar pale blue tile. The Blue Horizon Hotel at Robson and Bute is the best-known, but maybe this is one of them.
The Wosk bros' & their bargain-priced batch of blue tile

A blue tile clad building on 12th and Cambie
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