While not having the prominence of SFU or some of his houses, the Evergreen Building on Pender Street is one of Arthur Erickson’s most influential and important designs. Designed to be flexible as either offices or apartments, the Evergreen has a crisp urban edge along Pender Street, then transforms ingeniously to stacked trays of landscaped decks on the harbour side. Through a multi-year effort by many individuals, businesses and institutions, the Evergreen Building has not just been saved from demolition, but fully preserved. The first example of 1970s Modernist architecture to be both historically designated and fully restored in Western Canada, this reception and presentation at IBI Group’s renewed main floor premises will, for the first time, publicly tell the full story of how the Evergreen Building was saved then preserved, in the words of those who did it. Please join us for this very special fundraising evening (for the Arthur Erickson Foundation), celebrating a key success in Vancouver architectural culture.
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Photo credit: Chris Erickson
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