Sunday, April 5, 2009

New Vancouver Convention Center




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4/04/09
Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Center:
Some facts about the new Vancouver Convention Center:
  • Six acre grass and wildflower roof has been cultivated to be the perfect nesting ground for song birds and is home to four beehives.
  • With 40% of the convention building suspended over the harbor, its foundation has been specially designed to recreate a natural shoreline and acts as a marine habitat for sea urchins, starfish and sea lettuce, just to name a few.
  • Vancouver Convention Center's unique seawater heating and cooling system makes it one of the most energy efficient building in Vancouver.
  • The unique lumber stacked interior walls are built from sustainable BC Hemlock and were assembled by a robot named "Victoria" in Saanich, Vancouver Island.
  • Look up. There's 45 km. of sustainable BC fir Glulam beams above your head.
  • Everything is better when it's made from scratch, so that's how Convention chefs do things; in one of the country's largest banquet kitchens. And because everything's made from scratch, there's a lot less packaging to throw out, reducing the carbon footprint.
4 levels of astounding view of North Shore mountains.
Experience a sampling of trade shows - supersized. Helicopters, fire trucks, flower gardens and more, a real - life sample of exhibition and tradeshows on 220,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space.

"Blueberries"

"Blueberries"
Finished now! Painting at BACI Building, 2702 Norland Avenue, Burnaby, BC, Canada

"On to Whistler"

"On to Whistler"
Finished! Public showing now at Kensington Park Arena, 6159 Curtis Street, Burnaby, BC, Canada