Located in Vancouver's historic Crosstown district, 33 is a nine-storey mixed-use development with a combination of apartments and loft-style units. Threads of brightly-coloured glass are stitched through bay windows, animating the celebratory Silk Road leading to Chinatown’s Millennium Gate. The laneway facade features alternating recessed balconies and fully glazed bays with green- and blue-coloured glass, creating a checkerboard of light and shadow against the gritty backdrop of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
33
Vancouver, BC
Georgia Laine Developments Ltd.
2009
5,700 m2

coloured glass bays
sustainability
LEED Gold equivalent
awards & recognition
2009
Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver

masonry frame
This particular project provides considerably higher density with a distinctly contemporary expressive idiom, yet also strives to produce a scale and degree of surface texture that is sympathetic to its neighbours.
Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver

residential entry

East Pender Street

East Pender Street
sustainability
LEED Gold equivalent
awards & recognition
2009
Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver

residential unit

residential unit

laneway facade

green- and blue-glass bays

gritty backdrop

dusk
Successful in acknowledging the decorum of the street elevation, the magnitude of increase in density and building volume is revealed assertively to the lane behind.
Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver