Comments on: Pritzker to Rogers. http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:32:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fire Eater Paris 1982 « Stephen Rees’s blog http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Fire Eater Paris 1982 « Stephen Rees’s blog Fri, 04 May 2007 17:26:15 +0000 http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/#comment-39 [...] is a picture of the building [...] [...] is a picture of the building [...]

]]> By: Stephen Rees http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Stephen Rees Fri, 04 May 2007 17:19:00 +0000 http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/#comment-38 I found an old picture I took in 1982 soon after the centre opened of a street performer outside the Centre http://stephenrees.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/fire-eater-paris-1982-2/ I found an old picture I took in 1982 soon after the centre opened of a street performer outside the Centre

http://stephenrees.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/fire-eater-paris-1982-2/

]]> By: Stephen Rees http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Stephen Rees Wed, 02 May 2007 00:06:36 +0000 http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/#comment-32 The Centre Pompidiou is not just about the plumbing on the outside - though that did mean wonderful clear spaces inside. Not having a central services/structure column (like nearly every building in downtown Vancouver) made a lot more usuable space and flexibility in its use. Especially important for an exhibition place. But my favourite feature is the plaza outside with the street performers, which was shamelessly copied - and very successfully - at Covent Garden in London in existing long established spaces formerly used for selling flowers, fruit and veg. The Centre Pompidiou is not just about the plumbing on the outside – though that did mean wonderful clear spaces inside. Not having a central services/structure column (like nearly every building in downtown Vancouver) made a lot more usuable space and flexibility in its use. Especially important for an exhibition place.

But my favourite feature is the plaza outside with the street performers, which was shamelessly copied – and very successfully – at Covent Garden in London in existing long established spaces formerly used for selling flowers, fruit and veg.

]]> By: Duane http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Duane Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:06:24 +0000 http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/03/31/pritzker-to-rogers/#comment-19 Yeah that's cool. It's funny how things are like that. Most people would walk into a building in Yaletown and see exposed HVAC and think something was wrong. However, head over to Gastown into a loft apartment with exposed everything, concrete floors and brick walls and suddenly it's the next New York style apartment worthy of top dollar. As an aside, I used to design HVAC and fire protection systems as a summer student, so that's really cool that someone would expose all that. Yeah that’s cool. It’s funny how things are like that. Most people would walk into a building in Yaletown and see exposed HVAC and think something was wrong. However, head over to Gastown into a loft apartment with exposed everything, concrete floors and brick walls and suddenly it’s the next New York style apartment worthy of top dollar.

As an aside, I used to design HVAC and fire protection systems as a summer student, so that’s really cool that someone would expose all that.

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