Bottom image: Watercolor by P Henderson for the Canadian National Railway, Library and Archives Canada #2963055
Perhaps the greatest undersold development proposal in the history of Vancouver, here we have uncovered the plans that may have been pitched to the CNR suggesting what they could do with block 52 and the former CPR Hotel Vancouver.
With this drawing by P Henderson, I'd like to announce my new show at the Museum of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»called . It will be on exhibit in the studio gallery of the museum for the next few months, exploring architectural illustration and the imagined city.
This is one of my favourite areas of study, and I'm thrilled with the finished result. The show , and as I mentioned in , the museum's own exhibition has been held over until March 23, 2014. This is a great opportunity to study architecture up close, catching two great architecture shows at once. I'd like to thank all those who assisted with the show's production, and I really hope you get to see it in person!
"Sketch showing remodelling of existing old Hotel Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»to stores & garage, etc, John Schofield, Architect, CNR Montreal, July 12th, 1939, drawn by P. H." ~ you can just make out the former Provincial Courthouse in the background.
