Canada Place Painterly

Title

Canada Place Painterly

Artist

Connie Fox

Medium

Photograph - Outdoor Color Photo

Description

Canada Place Painterly
Fine Art Photography by Connie Fox

Original photograph showing the outdoor entrance lighted awning and people bustling to and fro, going about their business at Canada Place. Horizontal street scene rendered with a painterly effect in order to conceal the identities of travelers who make this scene bustle and come alive with activity.

Canada Place is a building situated on the Burrard Inlet waterfront of Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the home of the Vancouver Convention Centre, the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver's World Trade Centre, and the virtual flight ride FlyOver Canada. The building's exterior is covered by fabric roofs resembling sails. It is also the main cruise ship terminal for the region, where most of Vancouver's famous cruises to Alaska originate. The building was designed by architects Zeidler Roberts Partnership in joint venture with Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership and DA Architects + Planners.

The white sails of the building have made it a prominent landmark for the city, as well as drawing comparisons to the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia and the Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. Cruiseships docked here included the Disney Wonder and Pacific Princess, the smallest ship in the Princess line, but perfect for getting close to the glaciers in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.

The structure was expanded in 2001 to accommodate another cruise ship berth and in 2009/10, for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada Place served as the Main Press Centre.

Copyright 2015-17 Connie Steitz Fox.

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July 24th, 2017

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