A defining feature of the Vancouver skyline, BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium on the north shore of False Creek that has anchored major sport and entertainment in the city since it opened in 1983. Originally crowned by an air-supported dome, the stadium underwent a transformative renovation completed in 2011 that replaced the roof with a striking retractable cable-supported structure, giving it one of the most recognisable profiles of any venue in Canada. The stadium holds around fifty-four .....

The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in downtown Vancouver is a public gallery dedicated to the contemporary and traditional art of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, named in honour of Bill Reid, the renowned Haida artist whose work did much to bring the carving, jewellery and sculpture of the coastal nations to wide attention in the twentieth century. Opened in 2008, the gallery is the only public space in the country devoted specifically to this art, and it holds a coll.....

A cluster of open-air sports pitches and event fields within Vancouver's Stanley Park, the Brockton Point area hosts outdoor concerts, cultural festivals, and community events alongside its regular use for rugby, cricket, and other sports. The fields benefit from their location within the iconic 1,000-acre urban park, with the North Shore mountains and Burrard Inlet as a backdrop. Events held at Brockton Fields draw from Vancouver's diverse cultural communities and the park's year-round foot tra.....

Vancouver's oldest ballroom has been remaking itself for over a century, and its current form is the city's most storied nightclub. Celebrities at 1022 Davie Street occupies a building designed by Thomas Hooper - one of British Columbia's most important early architects - permitted in 1911 as a dancing academy and apartment house and finally opened in September 1914 as Lester Court, home of Frederick and Maud Lester's dance academy. As the Embassy Ballroom from 1933 it anchored the city's gentee.....

The main hall of UBC's Chan Centre was designed like a musical instrument, and performers treat it as one. The Chan Shun Concert Hall is the flagship venue of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at 6265 Crescent Road on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, opened on 11 May 1997 and named for Chan Shun, the Hong Kong shirt-manufacturing magnate and philanthropist whose sons Tom and Caleb Chan funded the building in his honour. Architect Bing Thom shaped the room in collabor.....

The dance floor bounces because it was built on tires stuffed with horsehair, and Canada's most influential nightclub has been springing under dancers' feet since 1930. The Commodore Ballroom at 868 Granville Street in downtown Vancouver opened on 3 December 1930 as the Commodore Cabaret, an Art Deco supper club built by brewing heir George Conrad Reifel to designs by architect H.H. Gillingham, whose second-floor English-style ballroom - forty by eighty feet of sprung hardwood - gave the room an.....

English Bay, on the western edge of downtown Vancouver, is the city's best-known beach, a broad crescent of sand at the foot of the West End where the towers of the city give way to the open water and the mountains of the North Shore rise across the inlet. Known affectionately to locals as First Beach, it sits at the southern end of the seawall that runs around Stanley Park and has long been the heart of summer life in the city, drawing crowds to swim, sunbathe, picnic and stroll, and famous abo.....

Once a gritty industrial sandbar in the middle of False Creek, Granville Island has been transformed into one of Vancouver's most beloved destinations, a peninsula crammed with a public market, artists' studios, theatres, shops and eateries beneath the great span of the Granville Street Bridge that passes overhead. The land itself was created early in the twentieth century by dredging and filling the shallow creek to make an island for factories and sawmills serving the booming city, and for dec.....

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is an astronomy and space science museum in the Kitsilano district of Vancouver, devoted to inspiring interest in the universe through interactive exhibits, planetarium shows and live science demonstrations. It is housed in a distinctive building, shared with the Museum of Vancouver, whose roof is shaped like the conical hat of the coastal First Nations and which is set in Vanier Park near the waterfront; the centre takes its name from the lumber magnate and phila.....

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.....