Posted on 07/04/04
Modernism's roots stir anew
WEST VANCOUVER -- An uncelebrated fact: West Vancouver was the test site for modern Canadian architecture. A colony of modernism grew up there, provoked by the landscape -- the steep angles of the land, the forests of towering hemlocks and cedars -- and the brazen ideas of its local design heroes: Bert Binning, Ron Thom and Arthur Erickson.
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