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Community

Earth Day

Celebrating our planet.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Both a celebration of our planet—and a reminder that we still have far to go—is Earth Day, an annual day of awareness.

MONTECRISTO Blog: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Community

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Zen in the city.

Usher in the Year of the Ram at one of Vancouver’s cultural jewels, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and adjacent Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park.

MONTE Blog: Vancouver or Rome

Business

Vancouver or Rome?

The price is high.

Vancouver home owners—looking to cash out in a hot real estate market and downsize? There are some great options available.

MONTEBlog: Gesamtkunstwerk

Design

Gesamtkunstwerk

Designs for the future.

A 1955 pencil sketch imagining a futuristic Vancouver by renowned architect Arthur Erickson headlines “Gesamtkunstwerk”, an exhibition showing Vancouver’s architectural coming of age from the 1950s through 2018.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Patkau Architects

5th Anniversary

Five Years of Architecture

Form, function, and a fabulous five years of architecture can be found in MONTECRISTO Magazine. Interviews with Patkau Architects, Scott Cohen, the legendary Fred Hollingsworth, and more.

MONTECRISTO: Chinatown's Columbia Block

Community

Chinatown’s Columbia Block

Moving forward by restoring the past.

A number of storefronts that have made up Vancouver’s traditional Chinatown have now closed, however, new businesses are working with the community to revitalize the historic neighbourhood.

MONTECRISTO: Vancouver's Urban Farms

Food and Drink

Vancouver’s Urban Farms

A growing reality.

A new vanguard of city farmers is proactively redefining the agronomic possibilities of a civic landscape.

MONTECRISTO: Public Art

Arts

Art in Public Spaces

Street views.

Early manifestations of public art were memorials, behemoths feting victories of warfare or commemorating leaders. Today, public art’s relevance is manifold as a vehicle for, commentary on, and reflection of social, political, and cultural experience and change.

MONTECRISTO: Westminster Pier Park

Design

The New New Westminster

Waterfront revival.

New Westminster is an increasingly desirable place for young urbanites and families to live, work, and play. The city, the oldest in British Columbia and the province’s first capital, is undergoing a revitalization, and is redefining itself as a hip and historic hangout.