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.....

The basement bar of a 1960s motor hotel became Vancouver's indie living room. The Biltmore Cabaret at 395 Kingsway opened more than fifty years ago as the resident pub of the Biltmore Hotel at the awkward junction of Kingsway and 12th in Mount Pleasant, and spent decades cycling through aliases and reputations - by the 2000s it was a genuinely rough room where police lined up outside on weekends. In 2007 Zak Pashak, the Calgary promoter behind Broken City and the Sled Island festival, took it ov.....

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.....

Canada Place is a landmark building and public space on the downtown Vancouver waterfront, instantly recognisable for the five white sail-like fabric roofs that billow above it and have become an emblem of the city, jutting out into the harbour on a pier with the mountains of the North Shore as a backdrop. Built for the 1986 world exposition, Expo 86, when it served as the Canada Pavilion, the structure was retained afterwards and developed into a multi-purpose complex that today houses the city.....

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 Chinatown Storytelling Centre is a small museum in the heart of Vancouver's historic Chinatown that gathers and shares the stories of Chinese Canadians, from the first immigrants who arrived in the nineteenth century to the communities of today, through personal accounts, photographs, artefacts and multimedia displays. Opened in 2021, the centre was created to preserve and pass on a history that had often gone untold, presenting the experiences of the men who came to work in the gold fields.....

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.....

In the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown lies the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, the first authentic full-scale classical Chinese scholar's garden built outside China, a walled enclosure of ponds, pavilions, rocks and plants that recreates the tranquil retreats favoured by the cultivated elite of the Ming dynasty. Opened in 1986 and named after the revered figure regarded as the father of modern China, who visited Canada in his years of revolutionary activity, the garden was a remarkabl.....