A cylinder of zinc, glass and concrete in a rhododendron forest holds some of North America's finest acoustics. The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at 6265 Crescent Road, on the University of British Columbia campus at the tip of Vancouver's Point Grey peninsula, opened on 11 May 1997 after a two-year, 25-million-dollar build funded by the Chan Foundation of Canada, BC Tel (now Telus), the Royal Bank and the Province of British Columbia. Brothers Tom and Caleb Chan, honouring the generosity .....

One family ran this Art Deco cinema for 76 straight years - through the Depression, the war and the multiplex age - and when it finally went dark, the neighbourhood fought for a decade to bring it back. The Hollywood Theatre, at 3123 West Broadway in Vancouver's Kitsilano district, opened on 24 October 1935 and returned in 2020 as a live music and arts venue. Architect Harold Cullerne designed the theatre for the Fairleigh family, who opened it on Thanksgiving Day 1935 with tickets at 10 and 15.....

Vancouver's folk music lives in a century-old church sanctuary with an oak sprung dance floor. St. James Hall at 3214 West 10th Avenue in Kitsilano - officially the Mel Lehan Hall at St. James Community Square - has hosted community gatherings for over ninety years, its Heritage Register building anchoring the corner where West 10th meets the neighbourhood's residential streets. The Rogue Folk Club made the hall its home in 2004, and Steve Edge's organisation - fifty-plus concerts a year of fol.....

Twelve concrete towers topped with thunderbirds by First Nations master Bill Reid hold up a roof suspended on cables - a 1967 stadium that doubles as public sculpture. Thunderbird Stadium at 6288 Stadium Road on the University of British Columbia campus opened on October 7, 1967. UBC alumnus architect Vladimir Plavsic designed the replacement for the aging Varsity Stadium, built for 1.24 million dollars in Canada's centennial year, with the graduating class of 1967 chipping in 5,000 dollars for.....

Canada won Olympic hockey games 13-1 and 10-1 in this building, and every sledge hockey match of the 2010 Paralympics was played on its ice. The Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre sits at 6066 Thunderbird Boulevard on the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus in greater Vancouver. The site's hockey lineage begins in 1963, when the original winter sports centre opened and became the training home of Canada's first national hockey program, founded by Father David Bauer; the refu.....