Art and architecture merge on Vancouver’s towers—but is the cultural outreach more than illusion?
Personnages by Lyse Lemieux at The Pacific at 889 Pacific Street, Vancouver. (Grosvenor Americas)
In Vancouver this week, art meets architecture on the façades of two downtown buildings. On Thursday, the new Grosvenor Pacific tower on Hornby Street, designed by ACDF Architecture and IBI Group Inc will be officially unveiled, with new mosaic works by the Vancouver artist Lyse Lemieux adorning its ground floor entries. And later that day, Arthur Erickson’s 1969 Macmillan Bloedel office tower (designed with his then partner Geoffrey Massey), will become a screen for artful projections designed by go2productions focussing on the life and masterworks of Canada’s internationally celebrated architect.
