Photo prise de la 250 Horseshoe Bay?
Du Lighthouse Park.
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Looks like the Vancouver Art Gallery is (again) starting the process for a new building after the previous proposed design by Herzog & De Meuron was cancelled
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/02/vancouver-art-gallery-14-canadian-firms/
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What horrible news to wake up to 
There are so many elements of this tragedy that hit close to home for me.
Looking at prevention, we’ll know more after investigations are complete, but it seems that cordons were well established, the perpetrator was known and in the mental health system, but the type of SUV used was one of the most dangerous weapons with which one could approach the festival.
Are we going to require SUVs to immobilise when they hit someone? To limit high acceleration? To ban high front-ends?
Nouvelle vidéo de la chaîne About Here sur les multiples centre-ville de la région de Vancouver, spécifiquement celui de Surrey
Why Do Cities Create New Downtowns?
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I was also thinking about this the day after. Collision detection must be a thing, right? We know that cars can brake automatically with existing technology, so there must be a way to apply it to collision detection. This would prevent hit-and-runs as well. It doesn’t even have to completely immobilize the vehicle, just restrict it to some arbitrary low speed so that people could pull over to the side if needed, but not flee the scene or continue to harm others.
The area this happened reminds me a lot of Avenue du Parc just north of Mont-Royal. It is extremely sad that we need to think of such things, but we need to do more to protect people from cars at street festivals — whether those cars be driven by persons with malicious intent or not. It should not be possible to easily drive into a pedestrian area.
One article I read stated that the City did a risk assessment but didn’t think it was necessary to block the road. But I disagree. In all cases that we are blocking a road for an event such as this — or pedestrianizing an area permanently — measures should be taken to ensure that the people are protected from cars. Historically the City has used dump trucks or other large vehicles, which certainly gave the Pride event I attended a certain air of fear. That was not long after a similar attack elsewhere in the world.
I would love to see large planters used. They could be heavy concrete ones that could be lifted with a forklift. When the street is open, they could be stored in street-side parking spots (for places that are often pedestrianized) and it would not be much of a hassle to move them into place when needed. Much less ominous than a dump truck, and less likely to be deemed “not necessary”.
Tallest tower in Vancouver proposed - inspired by sea sponges!
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Great location for it, right next to stations on two SkyTrain lines and along a busy bus corridor. The architecture is ambitious but fits the area very well.
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