It was a fabulous evening on Monday Feb 19th, at the Vancouver Heritage Awards, as the Heritage Award of Honour went to recognize the advocacy efforts and the saving of Joy Kogawa's childhood home by the Save Kogawa House Committee and TLC: The Land Conservancy of BC.
Check out my story: TLC and Save Joy Kogawa House committee both receive City of Vancouver Heritage Award of Honour
Check out the Vancouver Sun story:
Evening honours heritage efforts in Vancouver
CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, February 24, 2007The champions and enablers of heritage preservation in Vancouver received their due notice this week at the annual City of Vancouver heritage awards gathering.
Organized by the Vancouver Heritage Commission, a city council advisory body, and sponsored by (at least) Bob Rennie and an anonymous development-industry executive, the venue for the Monday evening "gala" was the recently restored Coastal Church on Georgia Street. (Previous venues have included the Stanley Theatre, Christ Church Cathedral and the Vancouver Club, all heritage-preservation projects.)
"Awards of Recognition" recipients included:
- Vancouver Heritage Foundation and Docomomo.BC for Downtown Vancouver Modernist Architecture Map Guide, a walking-tour guide to Vancouver's mid-century-modern legacy.
- Duncan Wilson and Rowland Johnson and their architect, James Burton, for the rehabilitation of the Rand House (1899), in the West End.
'Awards of Merit" recipients included:
- Owner Elizabeth Murphy; architect Keith Jakobsen; Hans Van Tiesenhausen; Pantheon Developments; and Margot Keate West, for the preservation and restoration of a Point Grey residence "by the prominent early architectural firm Sharp & Thompson in 1913."
"Awards of Honour" are not handed out annually. This year, however, competition jurors decided the preservation and restoration of a "Queen Anne" on the eastside, by owners Graham Elvidge and Kathleen Stormont, and the advocacy on behalf of author Joy Kogawa's childhood home by The Land Conservancy and the Save Joy Kogawa House Committee deserving of "Awards of Honour."
