Perhaps we are getting a few eye-catching exterior designs here and there, instead of the bland and uniform green-and-grey. These buildings are in the Main Street area, with one in Yaletown.
Yaletown near the casino
Near Main St and Keefer
“Fat Mao” is here. The yellow material is moveable shutters.
Perhaps colour is a tradition in this ‘hood
Main and First: brown and beige: red and beige: light green, mid grey and dark blue-grey.
Thanks for that photo of the Fresh Egg Mart – it has been etched in my mental map for decades. I remember thinking I wanted to buy eggs there when I first saw it – and did. They wrap up your flat of eggs and tie it in newspaper – easy to carry – love the experience. Maybe this post will prompt a rush of eager egg buyers.
They actually sell a few other things, though this large space is very sparse – in a building that you cannot replicate. It is living history.
Terra Cotta, turquoise – that fabulous stacked bay to the right – excellent photo.
http://www.theyorkshirelad.ca/8architecture/sixbuildings.html
The yellow shutters of building Fat Mao is in are really nice.
In a place where part of the year it’s dark and grey in the daytime, it’s nice to have bright colours around you.
The yellow on the Cooper’s Point tower is unfortunate, because it looks like insulation (i.e. unfinished).
Some of the shutters on the skinny Chinatown building did suffer damage in one of the wind storms last September:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/537/NcVmxN.jpg
Pic by McMinsen, SSP
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=201516&page=12