Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Located in the West End, one of Vancouver’s most beloved and populated neighborhoods, Henriquez Partners Architects’ 1770 Pendrell is designed to provide affordable and rental housing to meet the needs of a diverse community, protecting and enhancing public open spaces and green linkages.
1770 Pendrell has been awarded a 2023 Future House Award by Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum for Architecture and Design.
A unifying steel frame ties these elements together, recalling cargo ships anchored in the nearby harbor.
The frame geometry is further punctuated with wooden-slatted privacy screens.
Similar in scale to buildings from the 1950s-1970s, the design reduces the impact on private views and minimizes shadowing on public open space.
View corridors to neighboring parks are carefully preserved, and the western block shifts south, maintaining the northern neighbor’s panoramic English Bay views.
Ground-level landscaping includes a distinctive laneway activation to provide beach and car share access to residents, and a Japanese Zen Garden reinterprets the traditional West End garden with an Asian influence, complementing the architecture’s clean, modern aesthetic.
A public art piece, “Still Standing” by Samuel Roy-Bois, evokes cedar shake cottages that populated the area 100 years ago.
Fulfilling an important social sustainability objective, Pendrell introduces 173 market rentals with 26 units secured as affordable and approximately half of all units comprising family-sized, two- or three-bedroom units.
The roof terrace’s shared amenity provides urban agriculture, encouraging food security.
Pendrell also establishes an innovative district energy node as the primary, sustainable energy source for a new hot water network, designed to grow with demand.
Project: 1770 Pendrell
Architects: Henriquez Partners Architects
Lead Architect: Gregory Henriquez
Design Team: Peter Wood and Bas Olsman
Contractor: Icon West Construction Corp
Client: Westbank Projects Corp
Photographers: Ema Peter Photography