DIALOG Modernizes North Vancouver’s Shipyards into a Mixed-Use Development
What was once a catalyst for settlement along Vancouver?s North Shore during the First and Second World Wars has transformed into an outdoor gathering space completed with interconnected plazas, transit routes, and recreational spaces across North Vancouver?s waterfront.
Photo Credit: Andrew Latreille
The Shipyards is a DIALOG designed mixed-use development that offers a year-round opportunity to enliven the site?s shipbuilding history with markets, exhibitions, performances, and festivals.
Remnants of this multipurpose plaza?s historical composition are included in its reconstruction by integrating structures and landscapes that align perpendicular to the Burrard Inlet shoreline, just as the buildings and internal roads of the shipyards were. ?The heritage value of the place is associated with its location in Lower Lonsdale, the commercial core of North Vancouver, and the earliest, most historic area of commercial buildings on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet,? said DIALOG.
Rendering Credit: Andrew Latreille
Using the original steel components and geometry as a starting point, this project prioritizes the heritage character of the original machine shop building amidst modifications that suit its new functions.
The retractable roof takes on the character of similar arrangements inherent to the Shipyards area. The additional new structures on the site such as a hotel and restaurants adopt a contemporary form and act as a foil to the heritage machine shop.
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