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My route to a bottle depot took me by the 1930s-era, Art Moderne, Vancouver City Hall, at Cambie Street, and 12th Avenue. The old Hall looks especially good beside duller, contemporary architecture, not the least because it's been recently power washed from top to bottom. It was a kind of public works project when it was built at the height of the Great Depression, but that's a tale for another post. Today, as I rode past the main entrance (illegally, on the sidewalk!), I saw two guys trying to wrestle a chunk of skyline into their hatchback.



While I politely stood by, taking pictures, and watched them struggle, they explained the model represented a project designed by Via Architecture, and that a marketing push would be commencing in the coming days.



I know, right!. It would be exciting to have a giant fluorescent orange pylon in any city's skyline, but, actually, it's the slightly translucent tower, in front of the pylon. This is planned as a 25 storey office tower on 320 Granville Street -- right in the heart of the downtown business district. Via's project page gives it the snappy name "320 Granville."