Vancouver’s former Anglo-Canadian Warehouse building is being reimagined to align with the site’s original vision, with ‘adaptive reuse’ to include the addition of four more storeys, reports The Globe and Mail.
The Globe and Mail writes:
A 1911 heritage building at the west end of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Vancouver has been saved from demolition as a local developer and architect are reimagining it into a burgeoning brick-and-beam mixed-use property… To preserve the building’s heritage while accounting for modern-day demands… Architects and Designers decided to transform the two-storey warehouse…
The transformation is an example of adaptive reuse – the process of repurposing unused buildings into mixed-use spaces – and is a growing trend in commercial real estate….
… ‘During our first site visit with the structural engineer, we were in awe at the size of the columns and the thickness of the walls,’ says Bryan Lemos Beça…
Projected for completion this summer, 837 Beatty St. is the only new commercial office development to be delivered in downtown Vancouver for the foreseeable future…
