1927 – Hudsons Bay Company, Vancouver, British Columbia
Designed by Burke, Horwood & White of Toronto, and who specialised in designing large commercial buildings using historic styles but contemporary materials.
Designed by Burke, Horwood & White of Toronto, and who specialised in designing large commercial buildings using historic styles but contemporary materials.
Former Burtons store on St. Patrick’s Street now in use by another retailer with upper floors used as storage.
Ornate large former department store building for Alex Grant & Co., now divided into smaller retail units.
The Savoy-Plaza Hotel was constructed in 1927 on 5th Avenue between 58th and 59th Street,
A large canopy over the entrance signaled the Plaza, an entertainment complex built after the reconstruction of the area post 1916.
At streetlevel the hotel seems to be a large formidable mass but eventually narrows for the tower where each floor has only one apartment.
Designed in the Beaux-Arts style, it was the largest and most opulent station erected in Canada –
An obelisk of hammered granite with dressed angles standing on a base reached by three steps.
Vernon March was an English sculptor, of Farnborough, Kent, who designed and made the bronze figures of Victory,
The “Xanadú Mansion” Golf Course Club House, located on the San Bernardino crags, was designed by architects Covarrocas and Govantes for French American millionaire Irenee Dupont de Nemours.