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by Stephanie Macdonald Vancouver

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2021 Virtual Doors Open Richmond Event

The Richmond Museum is excited to announce the second fully virtual Doors Open Richmond, happening online from June 5-12, 2021. This year’s edition will feature more than 30 sites representing the city’s cultural diversity and heritage, such as places of worship, civic centres, museums, and local businesses. Visitors will be able to view content through the hashtag #DoorsOpenRichmond on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Visit richmondmuseum.ca/doors-open for more information.

HAVAN Awards of Excellence 2021 Winners Announced

The Homebuilders Association Vancouver (HAVAN) Awards for Housing Excellence winners were announced Friday, April 30, online. Streaming live from an exquisitely custom-built award-winning home in West Vancouver, viewers were treated to music by local band Ten Souljas. Just like a great house party, people viewing from the online awards platform had the opportunity to mix ‘n mingle in an organic video chat room, whereby simply moving your mouse, you could ‘bump into’ guests and strike up a conversation. Celebrating the 12th awards season, 37 builders and designers were awarded 55 prestigious HAVAN Awards. Notable highlights include: Vesta Properties Ltd. (Langley): collected a total of four wins, including two Grand HAVAN Awards: Best Residential Community: Single-Family (Latimer Heights), and SingleFamily Home Builder of the Year.

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Housing Starts this month rose 55 per cent from 2020 as builders accelerated construction amid robust housing market demand and improving weather.

Century Group and Four Winds Brewing Company Pursue Plans at Southlands

Century Group and Four Winds Brewing Company are pleased to announce that they are pursuing plans for Four Winds to establish a craft brewery and restaurant at Southlands Tsawwassen. Century Group has today filed an application to the City of Delta seeking approval of a Development Permit for a mixeduse building to be constructed in Southlands’ Market District that will be anchored on Market Avenue with an 8,600 squarefoot Four Winds restaurant and craft brewery and will contain 35 residences in the form of garden flats and stacked townhomes. This proposed mixed-use building complies with the current zoning regulations that pertain to Southlands.

Rendering by MOTIV Architects, May 2021. The concept design shown in this image has been submitted for Development Permit with the City of Delta and is subject to approval

The Polygon Gallery wins prestigious Architecture Award

The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C., designed by Patkau Architects, has won the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA’s) 2021 Architecture Award. The nine-member jury selects submissions demonstrating design achievement, including a sense of place, purpose, history, and environmental sustainability. The new gallery’s central mass floats above the ground plane, providing access to a new public space and views of Vancouver’s Qualex-Landmark recently broke ground on Legacy on Dunbar, a beautiful collection of residential homes that will add to a classic neighbourhood on Vancouver’s westside. Legacy will be the company’s 17th project in British Columbia, and is designed to blend into Dunbar’s leafy closeknit residential neighbourhood. The five-storey mixed-use development will take up an entire city block at Dunbar and 28th, and will feature 48 spacious two- and three-bedroom homes, a few ground floor townhomes, and a number of fresh retail storefronts to the community. The plan also will include a striking new public art installation. “Dunbar is one of Vancouver’s most beloved communities,” says QualexLandmark’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Jordan Beach. “We are proud to introduce homes that we feel complement and uplift the neighbourhood, while respecting its already-established character.”

skyline across the inlet. The façade functions as the gallery’s uniform voice and defines its place on the waterfront without contributing to any visual noise.