Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion | Completed - Page 3

deasine · #41 Posted **Apr 6, 2009, 2:58 AM**

My turn! Stupid Facebook compressed the photos. April 05, 2009 Update:

Source: My Photo, Hosted on Facebook

Still some construction of the Sea-Wall
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Closed Area
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Source: My Photo, Hosted on Facebook

Is that glass I see? =D
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Source: My Photo, Hosted on Facebook

moico · #42 Posted **Apr 7, 2009, 10:26 PM**

Hopefully you do have the original digital pictures. Facebook always reduces the size of everything you place there. I guess they would run "out of space" otherwise.
They (the Vancouver Convention Centre) had awesome weather for the Open House.

SFUVancouver · #43 Posted **Apr 12, 2009, 7:11 AM**

Vancouver’s new convention centre is officially open. It is more than one million square feet in size, has the largest green roof in Canada and the largest non-industrial green roof in North America. It is LEED Gold certified, meets all of its water needs using desalinated seawater and captured rainwater, which it then purifies for reuse and irrigation. The hallways and ballroom are bathed in sunlight and feature panoramic views of the city, Stanley Park, the port, Burrard Inlet, the City of North Vancouver, and the verdant Coastal Mountain range. The interiors feature countless board feet of British Columbia wood in a spectacular expression of local materiality.

On Saturday morning the doors were opened to the public for the first time and we came out in droves.

Friday – The finishing touches are added under a sullen grey sky before the weekend-long open house.

Taken by SFUVancouver, April 2nd, 2009.

Workers wrap up the final details of the new public plaza, which anchors the western half of the convention centre precinct. Beneath the footprint of the plaza is part of the parking level and beneath that again is the massive exhibition hall.

Taken by SFUVancouver, April 2nd, 2009.

The new section of seawall that wraps around the convention centre is deserted for the last time.

Taken by SFUVancouver, April 2nd, 2009.

Saturday - The doors are opened.

Taken by SFUVancouver, April 4th, 2009

SFUVancouver · #44 Posted **Oct 11, 2009, 8:32 PM**

It's been a while since there was an update. So here is a small one.

The reen roof has really taken hold and considering how hot and dry our summer was it is still in great shape as we head into fall.

Source: GlobalAirPhotos

SFUVancouver · #45 Posted **Dec 7, 2009, 12:42 AM**

Since the building is complete there have been no new updates in a while. However the City of Vancouver commissioned some aerial photography of downtown Vancouver in advance of the Winter Olympics in February. Here are some recent photos, beginning with the Convention Centre expansion.

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Originally Posted by Delirium

http://vancouver.ca/mediaroom/

metroXpress · #46 Posted **Dec 7, 2009, 2:47 AM**

cool, thanks for the update

SFUVancouver · #47 Posted **Dec 23, 2009, 12:22 AM**

A couple of great short videos about the Convention Centre.

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Originally Posted by dleung

Here's one of the convention centre + surroundings in vancouver

• Video Link

And another of just the green roof at the convention centre.

• Video Link

SFUVancouver · #48 Posted **Nov 17, 2010, 5:45 AM**

Taken by SFUVancouver, November 16th, 2010.

Taken by SFUVancouver, November 16th, 2010.

The building has been certified LEED Platinum, surpassing the original LEED Gold goal and the minimum requirement for new buildings in Vancouver, which is LEED Silver.

whiteford · #49 Posted **Sep 4, 2011, 12:08 AM**

great building. i love the giant globe as well.