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Archetype Multi-use Development in Vancouver
1 Oct 2020
Archetype Multi-use Development
Design: GBL Architects
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

GBL Architects unveils its designs for Archetype, a mixed-use development in the City of Vancouver?s newly revitalized False Creek Flats neighbourhood. Located at 220 East 1st Avenue, the development is centrally positioned within an emerging and dynamic district that caters to the city?s innovation economy.

The opportunity for a balanced living and working program to co-exist within a development of this scale is uncommon within the city. Archetype serves as an innovative precedent for a mixed-use residential, commercial, and light industrial integrated urban development.
Occupying half a city block, Archetype consolidates a diverse mix of programs within a well-considered urban design. The development is anchored on either side by two mid-rise towers, one residential and the other office, bridged by a residential podium and unified by a level of industrial units at grade.

The building?s mass distribution is further articulated by the insertion of an Arts Walk pedestrian connector that bisects the site physically separating the office tower from the podium and connected residential tower. The twenty-five-foot-wide swath carved through the site is part of the city?s Arts Walk corridor designated to become an important link connecting ...