Getting ready to head down to the Pan Pacific for a meeting with the Canada Brand team, I looked out the south window of the tower I'm bunking down in. The panorama of Vancouver sky scape was bathed in sun....as was this building. I watched the Snow Birds close the Expo 86 from these gardens on the roof of the Manhattan Apartments. These growing spaces were a first for Canada...a project by City Farmer and their dream-meister Leslie Scrimshaw. It was a huge struggle to convince people that food could be grown in non-traditional spaces. Now the new Convention Centre which has been turned into the Media Centre for the 2010 games has an enormous roof of greenery.
The gorgeous art deco building at the corner of Robson and Thurlow was a cooperative ... one of the first in the city, managed by the tenants. For me, it's an other one of the feel-good, culinary circles that occur so regularly on this coast!
