VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE WEST VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA

摘要

Just by the numbers, the Vancouver Convention Centre West-designed by Seattle-based LMN Architects-is impressive: 1.2 million square feet located on an 11-acre former brownfield site on the city's waterfront, topped by a six-acre living roof that hosts 400,000 indigenous plants. The jury was wowed by how well the LEED Platinum building was integrated into its context and how it made links between the public space along the harbor and the downtown urban fabric. "I thought it was a miracle to take a convention center, which is really a big blob, and to make it work in a city scale," juror Bill Valentine said. The Convention Centre site is more water than land, and the design team was conscious of the local subaquatic ecosystem.