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August 30, 2019 - The following text is from LMN (the architect's) website: lmnarchitects.com/project/vancouver-convention-centre-west
Vision
The world’s first LEED Platinum convention center, Vancouver Convention Centre West fully integrates the urban ecosystem at the intersection of a vibrant downtown core and one of the most spectacular natural ecosystems in North America. The culmination of two decades of planning and redevelopment for its waterfront neighborhood, the project weaves together architecture, interior architecture, and urban design in a unified whole that functions literally as a living part of both the city and the harbor.
Site and Program
The extensive and complex program encompasses at once a single building and a new urban district. Occupying a former brownfield site on the downtown waterfront, the development is approximately 14 acres on land and 8 acres over water, with 1 million square feet of convention space, 90,000 square feet of retail space, 450 parking stalls, and 400,000 square feet of walkways, bikeways, public open space, and plazas. The public realm extends through and around the site including a waterfront promenade featuring restaurants, retail storefronts, and public art, while infrastructure for future development extends into the water. An integrated float plane terminal provides undoubtedly the most spectacular way of arriving at the facility. At the center of the public realm, the project’s Jack Poole Plaza is the city’s first major gathering space on the water’s edge, and the permanent home of the 2010 Olympic Torch.
Design
The architectural approach creates a community experience that is simultaneously a building, an urban plaza, a park, and an ecosystem. The convention center program emphasizes spaces for both public and private events, gatherings, and circulation, mixing the energy of convention visitors with the life of the city. The building’s landforms fold in specific ways to embrace the downtown street grid and preserve view corridors out to the water. The entire perimeter enclosure is an ultra-clear glass system, visually reinforcing the integration of urban and waterfront context into the user experience of the building.
The iconic living roof, visible from throughout the city, forms the terminus of a chain of waterfront parks that rings the harbor and creates continuous stepping-stone habitat between the convention center and Stanley Park. Less visible but equally productive, an artificial concrete reef drops below the waterfront promenade, designed in collaboration with marine biologists to restore the ecology of the natural shoreline.
The building’s landforms create a topographical experience on the interior. Materiality is based around the use of indigenous British Columbia wood, expressed in the strong directional lines of the ceiling plane as well as wall cladding that simulates the texture of stacks of lumber. The interior is constantly connected to daylight and views, setting up an extroverted, community-friendly relationship with the exterior and connecting the interior experience with the life of the city and the waterfront. Transparency serves as an orienting device for users in the facility, anchoring each space to the unique views available from its vantage point. By night, the lit interior creates an urban lantern at the water’s edge.
Sustainability
The most visible evidence of the project’s deep approach to ecology is its living roof—at 6 acres it is the largest in Canada, hosting some 400,000 indigenous plants and 240,000 bees in 4 colonies that provide honey for the convention center restaurant. The roof’s sloping forms build on the topography of the region, creating a formal as well as ecological connection to nearby Stanley Park and the North Shore Mountains in view across the Burrard Inlet. The slopes set up natural drainage and seed migration patterns for the roof’s ecology. The roof has no public access points, allowing it to develop as a fully functional habitat for migrating wildlife, while the landforms fold to allow views onto the lush vegetation from inside and outside the building.
Some 35% of the project is built on piles over the water, surrounded by a custom-designed marine habitat skirt consisting of 5 concrete tiers that provide rocky surfaces for marine life to attach. Each tier supports a separate set of biota depending on the water depth, forming a complete shoreline ecosystem including salmon, crabs, starfish, shellfish, and dozens of other native species. Runnels built into the tide flats beneath the building create additional tidal habitats that flush daily.
The internal metabolism of the building draws many of its inputs from the site’s renewable resources. A seawater heat pump system, for example, takes advantage of the constant temperature of seawater to produce cooling for the building during warmer months and heating in cooler months, contributing to a reduction in energy use of 60% over typical convention centers. A water conservation and reuse system reduces potable water use by 70%, including an on-site blackwater treatment plant that cycles all wastewater from the building including stormwater from the living roof, and returns it for irrigation and other gray water needs.
Socially, the project defines an urban district that is the focal point of the downtown waterfront in a city of intense civic involvement and environmental awareness. An early indication of its value to the city is that the building served as the International Broadcast Centre for the 2010 Olympic Games, with the public plaza as the site for the Olympic Torch. Having tripled the city’s convention capacity, the project continues to reap economic benefits for the British Columbia region with record bookings surpassing expectations, and was recently selected as the home of the international TED Conference.
Further detail on the history of the project and all of its sustainability thinking can be found in the LMN case study How Vancouver Greened Its Waterfront.
Wet sand and rocks on Shi Shi Beach after a wave subsided, along the Pacific Ocean in Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA
An Auburn University research team in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, or CFWE, has been awarded a grant of $459,482 to assess the function and vulnerability of forested wetlands in the Mobile-Tensaw-Apalachee River Delta, or “MTA River Delta.” In this photo, the tidal inlet of a tidal freshwater forested wetland in the MTA Delta is shown.
That is Riverside-Albert in the background. The tide was coming back in, so the river there is a bit more impressive at the very lowest tide. But the sun had just come out, and the colours were fantastic!
A great big human powered kinetic sculpture (The Tidal Train) will arrive at Port Moody City Hall. Port Moody is where the world's first transcontinental train finished it's remarkable journey. This artwork celebrates that achievement and the natural beauty of the surrounding area. {This is a model for a much larger artwork}.While contemplating the possibilities for the project the nature of the site is an important consideration. I am inspired by the history, landscape and architecture of the surroundings. The circular space in the centre of the traffic circle is framed by the architecture of the Civic Centre and acts as a welcome mat for the city. Seen from above, the space resembles a stage for a theatre in the round. City hall, the library and the Inlet Theatre become the “audience”. What would the set look like for the story of Port Moody? What completes this scene?
Nature is an important element in this story. Deer and bears can stilll be seen wandering into town from time to time. Water is the lifeblood of Port Moody. The shore and watersheds are defining features of the area. The train reflects both the history and future of Port Moody. The first transcontinental train arrived and Port Moody became the destination of a very significant historical achievement. Soon a skytrain will begin to connect Port Moody to other communities and help define the future. The Tidal Train artwork incorporates all of these unique elements of Port Moody. The artwork has harmony and drama, movement and tranquility, context and creativity.
Tidal Train is a creative fusion of forms. As with a theatre set, there is an interplay of the elements. The artwork invites participation. The rotation of the train engine completes the landscape of the traffic circle and connects the roundhouse design of the architecture to its context. The suspended engine also speaks of the Skytrain that will soon arrive.
The engine dances on the waves connecting the past and the future. When one spins the wheel below, the engine begins to rotate above. Movement and context are integrated with the architecture and meaning of the roundhouse. There is now an engaging kinetic sculpture that signifies the unique context and history of Port Moody.
The story of Port Moody is poetically expressed in this interactive kinetic sculpture. The Tidal Train is a reflection of the past and the future. The beautiful and powerful form plays with the interface between nature and humanity. When one turns the wheel below, the engine rotates in a dance that connects the architecture of the roundhouse with the legend of the first transcontinental train. The artwork speaks of the environment and the future arrival of the Skytrain. A landscape of memory is created and one sees what was hidden.
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Scenes of roads and public access areas begin to nuisance flood as high tide creeps into Norfolk, Va. after a few day of rainfall on May 20, 2020.
(Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
Aegir's occur at Boothferry on most of the spring tides. An Aegir is another name for a tidal bore. I just happened to be around when this one came.
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The River Hull tidal barrier framing the new(isn) Premier Inn. It was the layered textures in the foreground mud that caught my eye here.
The Dollart (German name) or Dollard (Dutch name) is a bay in the Wadden Sea between the northern Netherlands and Germany, on the west side of the estuary of the Ems river. Most of it dries at low tide. Many water birds feed there.
After the tidal bore passes, the water in the Petitcodiac River continues to rise. Compare this photo to pictures 3 and 11 in this series.
That strange thing behind the Ice Tower on the Pier is a floating "Sheerlegs Crane" - the Dutch registered "Taklift 4".
There is currently a lot of activity around the Orkney coastline related to the installation & testing of Tidal & Wave Power electricity generation machines.
Presumably the Taklift 4 is involved with that activity. Interested "Techies" might like to have a look at the website of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) based in Stromness to learn more about what is going on - at www.emec.org.uk
Tidal Flow - a Medway Eyes photographic exhibition at Riverside Country Park, Gillingham from 9th - 22nd May 2009
National Park Service FLORAL LIBRARY / Late Summer Display across from the Tidal Basin between Maine Avenue and Independence Avenue near 17th Street, SW, Washington DC on Friday evening, 23 August 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Gladiolus
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En route to 50th Anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washingon GLOBAL FREEDOM FESTIVAL
Elvert Barnes 50th Anniversary of the 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR JOBS & FREEDOM / August 2013 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/50MOW2013