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The 2023 property assessment is $153 million. There was an observation deck, but during the depression in the 1930s the 25-cent admission price proved unaffordable for most. Currently, there are no public galleries in the building. Inside the massive brass-doored elevators the walls are inlaid with 12 varieties of local hardwoods. All over the ...
Ballantyne Pier (also called the Ballantyne Cruise Terminal) was a commercial and passenger dock of the Port of Vancouver, Canada, located at 851 Centennial Road. It sat at the west side of Rogers Sugar across the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks from Powell Street.
The building was designed by architects Zeidler Roberts Partnership in joint venture with Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership and DA Architects + Planners. Canada Place is accessed via West Cordova Street and near Waterfront Station , a major transit hub with SkyTrain , SeaBus , and West Coast Express connections.
The Pont du Gard (c.19 BC), Nîmes; 3 rows of piers with arches springing from them to support the bridge. A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge. Sections of structural walls between openings (bays) can function as piers.
White Rock Pier is a 470-metre-long (1,540 ft) pier in White Rock, British Columbia.The pier has a sign identifying it as Canada's longest pier. However, the title is disputed with the Quai de Portneuf in Portneuf, Quebec, [1] which is built in the same manner as the longer causeway at the nearby Tsawwassen ferry terminal.
Ogden Point is a deep water port facility located in the southwestern corner of the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Its advantageous geographic location on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, close to major population centres Vancouver and Seattle, has made it an attractive cruise ship destination.
The Convent of the Sacred Heart high school was founded by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, in 1912, in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was an all-girls Catholic school until 1979, when it was sold to St. George's School (Vancouver) and became an all-boys (non denominational) Junior school.
The Vancouver Special is a unique architectural style of housing that emerged in the Lower Mainland from the mid-1960s to 1980s. Residential architecture is where the West Coast Style began, in particular on view properties on the slopes of the North Shore, West Point Grey, and Burnaby's Capitol Hill.