I think this bldg was the focus of a presentation at APT-I a few years ago calling it a "preservation" project where they replaced the ENTIRE façade and changed the spandrel panels below the windows to accommodate air conditioning. They said they couldn't preserve the rest. I got uppity over this cuz they didn't preserve the façade only the most of the structural system and the general profile of the building. This is fine in my opinion for the reasons they stated but please don't call it a great example of "preservation".
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Subject: Re: [BP] When is a pane adaptive reuse
A famous acrhitectural British Columbia window event was the complete
failure of the sealed unit windows on the then modern1957 BC Electric office
building in downtown Vancouver, an artistically styled, tiled and shaped 21
story tower built to loom over the then three story city with corporate
pride during the era of major expansion of the electric company system. In
that era of optimism, they actually hired both an architect and an artist to
work together to design the place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Hydro
In 1962, when I arrived in Vancouver as a student, all the architects and
arch. students I met had thick plate glass coffee tables at home and in
their offices, all the same size, all from the five year old BC Electric
Building. The tables were displayed with ironic architectural low budget
pride, identifying the owners as members of the little society of those who
were "connected" and those who "knew", much like patches worn on Hell's
Angels Jackets.
As in many beautiful buildings, some detail just didn't work.
cp in bc
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