An Arts Program's Move to Troubled Vancouver Neighborhood

Architects get LUs for the AIA at SCUP–45.

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is moving its School for Contemporary Arts into Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, which is apparently not considered a particularly good or safe neighborhood. Here's a link to a Globe and Mail article by Marsha Lederman.

And here is SFU's information page on the project, which includes a visual tour.

From Lederman:

SFU Woodward's is part of a revolutionary mixed-use experiment on the site of a once-iconic department store in the Downtown Eastside. The new Woodward's encompasses luxury condominiums, social housing, retail and office space (among the future tenants: the National Film Board and the city's cultural-affairs offices) as well as Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts and the exhibition and creation spaces that will be part of that.

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