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Oakridge 

Awarded Future Project of the Year at the World Architecture Awards in 2015 for its innovation and beauty, and named one of CNN’s most anticipated buildings in 2020, Vancouver House has attracted attention from around the world. Set for completion in spring of 2020, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed project includes both high-rise and low rise structures, with the tower rising 59-storeys at the corner of Beach and Howe above 3 additional buildings between the offramps of the Granville Street bridge. Vancouver House includes 375 residential homes, 106 rental homes, as well as new retail, workspace and amenity space, forming the core of a new waterfront community, the Beach District.

The design of any building should be a function of the particular constraints and characteristics of each site and in the case of Vancouver House, the solution that BIG arrived at is very much a direct response its site. To accomodate complex site restrictions, a slender base forms the nine-storey podium, ultimately widening into the 515-foot residential tower as it rises to meet the sky. 

The net result is a unique building typology for Vancouver. From Vancouver House, to Vancouver's House, this is a project that has become quickly become a part of the city's identity. When the Beach District is complete and Rodney Graham's Spinning Chandelier is illuminating the vibrant public realm beneath the Granville Street Bridge, we hope people everywhere will recognize this as city-building at its best.


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This is our vision of Oakridge:
 
An urban enclave defined in equal terms by its landscape and its people; organized around a nearly 10-acre park with elegant towers extruded organically from the landscape; supporting a quality of life that draws on a past steeped in raw natural beauty to represent a future of social, environmental and cultural abundance. Oakridge will be a crossroads for living, working, connecting, learning, creating and exploring – cultivated by those who want to be part of what’s next. It will be:

- A cultural hub that pays homage to human experience in all its forms;
- 2,600 homes for nearly 6,000 residents;
- Workspace for 3,000 creative professionals;
- More than 300 stores featuring the world’s most distinguished brands;
- A unique culinary experience featuring the best local and global chefs;
- One of Vancouver’s largest community centres;
- Vancouver’s second-largest library;
- A nearly 10-acre park made up of six integrated smaller parks;
- Home to the world-renowned Goh Ballet performing arts academy; and
- An incomparable variety of live music venues.

Oakridge will restore the city – one that celebrates nature as an integral part of who we are and what makes Vancouver one of the most liveable cities in the world. Its organic architecture and comprehensive infrastructure will support an intuitive and serendipitous way of life that evolves constantly, naturally and flexibly. Our vision of Oakridge is a testament to the ability of man and nature to coexist.

A place for life to unfold.


Oakridge

A project by an international developer in Tokyo is in itself a rarity. In the past year, Westbank has completed two, with more in the works. 

Designed in collaboration with world-renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and OSO, founded by two of Kuma’s protégées, The Kita and The Avior, Westbank’s first projects in Tokyo, are redefining luxury, offering a new way of living in the world’s largest global city. 

The Kita and The Avior Set a New Standard for Luxury Residences in Tokyo

Vancouver House Tops CNN's List of Most Anticipated Buildings in 2020

Vancouver artist Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier dazzles under Granville Street Bridge

Bjarke Ingels Group Completes Vancouver House, a Modern Twist on New York’s Flatiron Building

As a preview of what's to come at Vancouver House's Beach District,
Westbank is hosting our 2nd annual Shipping Container Summer Pop-Up
Series at Shaw Tower.

The pop-up runs from June 10th through September 21st. The container will
showcase one vendor at a time, operating daily with varying hours and
durations — pop in often to see who's in the box!

Dipped Doughnuts, Flourgirl Baking, BETH RICHARDS, Tacofino, The Juice Truck &
To Die For Fine Foods, MERcuterie, House Concepts, Ride Cycle Club and more!

Beach District at Vancouver House, set to complete in late 2019, will create a
new food & beverage destination under the Granville St. Bridge in downtown
Vancouver. To complement the existing retail, including a new Fresh Street
Market grocery store and London Drugs, five shipping containers are being
installed on site. These shipping containers will be curated by Westbank and
feature a variety of new and highly sought after culinary delights, fashion and
fitness concepts.

Pop-Up Shipping Container Summer Series 

We welcomed over 3000 guests at our "Made In Italy" event to celebrate the launch of our latest estate offering at Oakridge: The Lissoni Palazzi, a collaboration with renowned Italian Designer Piero Lissoni. The Palazzi are 70 estate homes on the top floors of one of the tallest towers at Oakridge featuring expansive living spaces and stunning views of the Pacific Northwest.

The event showcased the best of Italian design, culture and fashion including a selection of vintage Italian cars. Lamborghini had 10 cars on display, which included a historic Countach and first look at the Lamborghini Huracan Evo. A selection of food vendors — Via Tevere, Giovane, Bella Gelateria, Mr. Arancino, The Cannoli King and Roasted Coffee
treated our guests to Italian food and beverages. Guests were entertained by opera singer Mehlinda Heartt, folk musician Lache Cercel and the Carmelina Cupo Band who performed throughout the event.

Made In Italy

### Not an offering for sale in the Province of British Columbia

Thank you Seattle — we are 50% sold in our first month. 

First Light will bring artistry to the Seattle skyline and luxury, comfort and style to every suite. First Light will bridge Belltown with Seattle’s downtown, offering a fresh take on urban living. 

“First Light is a story of collaboration. This quality of work only happens by bringing together like-minded people with the common goal of producing something extraordinarily good.”
- Ian Gillespie

Visit the First Light Presentation Gallery for an in-person opportunity to visualize the interiors of First Light homes. Open daily from 11am to 5pm at 300 Virginia Street, Seattle.



First Light Seattle 50% Sold Out*

Thank you Vancouver. We are pleased to announce the first residential offerings at Oakridge is now sold out. We would like to also extend our sincerest thank to Sergio, his team, and the team at B&B Italia for joining us on this journey.

__The Palazzi by Piero Lissoni x Oakridge — Launching Now__

The Palazzi by Piero Lissoni x Oakridge represents the ultimate residential offering within what is simply one of the most sophisticated and layered developments in the world. They are also, for Westbank, the continuation of a long tradition of bringing the most refined residences available to Canada, the United States and Tokyo.
We have designed 70 estates on the floors 28-41 that Piero’s team have customized to take advantage of the more luxurious space. These homes will enjoy all of the attributes that come from living on top of the cultural hub of the city.

Visit The Sales Atelier at the Unwritten Exhibition at Oakridge Centre. 
Open during mall hours.

Learn more at 
[OAKRIDGEVANCOUVER.CA](https://oakridgevancouver.ca)

Castiglia x Oakridge is Sold Out

Thank You Toronto — King Toronto is over 50% Sold and we are planning the final release of West Mountain Homes. 

King Toronto is a story of collaboration and a testament to what can be achieved through partnerships and shared values. These values have created the foundation on which we have been able to foster innovation, creativity, sustainability, artistry and city-building.

Our partnership with Allied and BIG began with TELUS Sky in Calgary. Today, we are building upon the relationships we have formed to expand our work and bring a new project to Toronto, with even greater ambition.

[http://kingtoronto.com/](http://kingtoronto.com/)

King Toronto — Final Release

In a world where it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what it is you do as oppose to your peers, everything we’ve tried to do at Vancouver House is exemplary. Every one of the Creative Spaces is a unique space. The totality is a project that has never been designed before and will never be created again. The message it conveys to the entrepreneur running their business from this space is that you’re challenging the norms, you’re disrupting the status quo, you’re seeing constraints as opportunities to exercise your creativity.

There are only 16 opportunities to lease the Creative Spaces at Vancouver House. This is not office space; it is something altogether different. This is your space. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, every space is different, every space is unique.

[http://vancouverhouse.ca/](http://vancouverhouse.ca/)

Creative Space 

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Broadway & Alma is a new rental project on Vancouver’s West Side, bordered by Kitsilano and Point Grey, and our first project to be completely designed by the boutique Vancouver-based design firm, Leckie Studio. A young, award-winning interdiscipinary practice whose past focus has centred on beautifully-designed single family homes, our collaborations with Leckie Studio to date have created some of their first multi-family residential designs.

We are committed to making a significant long term contribution to Vancouver’s rental housing supply and this project will bring approximately 163 secured rental units, with 20% of the residential floor area for to moderate income households. 

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Designed by Henriquez Partners Architects, Blood Alley is comprised of 62 market and 80 non-market rental homes, an underground restaurant/lounge space, retail and a public plaza. The project will retain the historic character of the existing Stanley Hotel and the New Fountain Hotel, through the rehabilitation of the entire original façade, and features retail at grade designed by OSO, as well as two floors of below-grade restaurant/lounge space. A breezeway running through the project will interconnect Blood Alley Square with Cordova St, inspired by the Corso Como of Milan.

Westbank is creating Blood Alley with the goal of establishing a new, dynamic gathering place in the community, with arts and culture focused programming that will enrich the cultural landscape of our city.

Blood Alley Restaurant and Lounge by OSO

The restaurant and lounge are made up of a series of parallel arches that connect the street and the plaza – the front and the back – of the building. The arches are clad in bent aluminum panels and perforated with countless small triangles that appear like overlapping leaves in a forest. Numerous light fixtures are placed behind the holes to illuminate the interiors. The combination of ambient and sharp lights creates a hazy atmosphere with penetrating light rays like a sun-dappled garden.


We have been working with the City of Vancouver for a number of years to reimagine the zoning in this area, in recognition that the very nature of industry has fundamentally changed. It was important to maintain the industrial land-use but at the same time, our industrial-zoned land base needed to be retooled to respond and adapt to a changing industry. So, we teamed up with Gregory Henriquez, also the architect on TELUS Garden, Woodward’s and many other projects across the country, to design workspace for the creative economy. 

Now, four years later, we have produced Main Alley, a new creative economy campus in the heart of Mount Pleasant, Vancouver’s creative and technology district.

Main Alley reflects our commitment to playing a meaningful role in the transformation of Vancouver’s creative economy and help shape one of the city’s pivotal neighborhoods. We’re creating a new campus in one of North America’s fastest growing innovation hubs on one of North America’s coolest streets, curated with the vision for the future of this vibrant, creative community.

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The Frye Museum was founded on the generous donation of Charles and Emma Frye in 1952. Committed under its charter to be admission-free, while it is a small museum, it has a history of hitting above its weight. We see this project as an opportunity to build upon that legacy and help the museum continue to hold its own. Frye Museum is adjacent to the St. James Cathedral in the First Hill Neighbourhood, a particularly healthy, vibrant community in Seattle. The concept for the design is to extend the museum into a museum campus, with the museum’s aesthetic running through the veins of a new residential project, creating the architectural expression for the skin of the building as well as animating the surrounding public space. 

Architect Peter Busby of Perkins + Will has created a building that embodies the concept of “creative tension.” It consists of two seemingly leaning towers joined by an elegant, thin bridge, suspended 300 feet above the ground. A grand lobby will showcase art pieces for the Frye Art Museum across the street, while the two towers will reflect the Museum’s existing structure, through architectural references and materials. Shifting screens on the building’s facade will create a pattern inspired by the placement of framed artwork in the Salon of the Frye Museum, allowing residents to interact with the building’s exterior animation. 


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The Kita has sweeping, open living areas and an  unprecedented amount of space and amenity for  densely populated Tokyo. Offering 12 spacious  residences, a dedicated concierge and true artistry of design by internationally renowned architect Kengo Kuma, it sets a  new precedent for Japanese condominiums and  offers a standard of living that will be difficult for  Tokyo to look back from. Intuitive, intelligent,  multi-textured, multi-layered and sumptuously  comfortable, it is both a place to live and a higher plane for living. Both an epoch-making piece of  architecture and a timeless work of art.

The Kita is a building that reveals itself softly, subtly – not just through sight but all the senses. It is a place where shadows dance, light metamorphosises surface, textures gently  intermingle, views unfold, foliage enfolds and  materials unveil themselves in slow, compelling  ways. There is nothing explicit about it. Rather, it  is calm and unobtrusive. Yet it has a profound  sense of atmosphere. An atmosphere that envelops you, embraces you, stays with you  –  and is felt deep in your core.  


While the story behind The Avior is one of blending, layering and gentle transition, these themes relate to the experience of living there, too. Inside, each of the 11 apartments and 2 penthouses is spacious, airy and open-plan, with  high ceilings and huge windows overlooking the  trees. This allows for smooth transition between  living areas, and suggests a soothing symbiosis with the natural world. The clarity and abundance of light is invigorating, yet, at the same time, cocoon-like softness is achieved through materials and beautiful detailing. Outside, Japanese-style gardens surround the building,  with undulating, mossy hills, a scattering of smaller rock gardens, a flowing stream and an abundance of bamboo, maple and cherry blossom trees. Very Japanese in its delicacy, yet  satisfying Western proportions and living expectations in every way, The Avior is a bridge between worlds.

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Following the success of the Shangri-La Toronto, we are pleased to be contributing another building only a few hundred feet away, as it gives us the opportunity to further curate this neighbourhood’s built-environment. 

19 Duncan is a joint venture between Westbank and Allied. Designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the project will retain in its podium levels the visual integrity of the existing historic building and integrate a 57 story rental residential tower. The podium office space has already been 100 percent pre-leased to a global media and technology leader, making a significant renewed commitment to Toronto and Canada. We are thrilled to be collaborating with them to create some of Canada’s most exciting workspace.  At-grade, the project will feature a unique living room that brings all the components of the project together in a “collision zone” that we think will be unique in Canada and if successful, something that we could build upon.  19 Duncan is an important component to our practice’s expansion in Toronto, we would like to think of the surrounding neighbourhood as an area of future concentration for us. 


19 Duncan

Created in partnership with Crombie REIT, Zephyr will provide new rental housing for the West End, an expansive grocery store amenity that is the largest in the West End and service-oriented retail at street level. On one hand, we sought to balance a respect for the neighbourhood context, and on the other to recognize that our role is to establish a higher standard going forward. In this light, we have sought to create a new architectural typology for the West End. As with all Westbank projects, we have collaborated with a highly respected artist to integrate art installations into the very fabric of the building. Vancouver-based artist Neil Campbell has created Zephyr, a multi-coloured art installation that extends along the building’s south façade, to act as his  living canvas.