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Strathcona Village in Vancouver
Contemporary Residential Development in British Columbia, Canada – design by GBL Architects
23 Jul 2019
Strathcona Village
Design: GBL Architects
Location: East Hastings Street in Strathcona, Vancouver, BC, Canada

GBL Architects, a Vancouver-based practice, recently completed Strathcona Village, a mixed-use industrial and residential development considered the first of its kind in North America. The 300,000 square foot building covering almost an entire city block is located on East Hastings Street in Strathcona, one of Vancouver?s oldest neighbourhoods.
The site of the development, near the downtown core, on the edge of the Port of Vancouver, has historically been one of industry. To maintain existing industrial space while increasing the local housing supply in the area an innovative approach was called for. The Strathcona Village project successfully pioneered the integration of previously considered incompatible programs into a new hybrid mixed-use typology for Vancouver.
The development is a sustainable community model, providing much needed affordable housing, while maintaining and generating light industry in the neighbourhood where approximately thirty percent of its population work locally. The building includes 70 units of City-owned social housing, 23 of which are rented at shelter rates in addition to 17 that are designed fo...