Vancouver Park Board Offices

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation Offices consist of three linked, low, flat-roofed pavilions clad with stone, wood and extensive glazing.

Constructed in 1962, the offices have historic value as the new home of the Vancouver Park Board as it centralized its activities during the 1960s. The buildings prominent location at a principal entrance to the city’s pre-eminent park is symbolic of the Park Board assumption of a higher profile.

The building is exemplary of the more organic or naturalistic aspects of Modernist design principles. Details include: exposed post and beam construction and extensive banks of wood windows.

Lead architect was Percy Underwood, partner in the locally prominent firm Underwood, McKinley and Cameron.

Source

Canada's Historic Places, https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/4/0/404750/e8188e54-4611-4335-8624-10aea55d502d-V00106.mp4

More information

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8824&pid=0 , https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/4/0/404750/e8188e54-4611-4335-8624-10aea55d502d-V00106.mp4