8 Great Designs from Vancouver

Beautiful Vancouver, aka Hollywood North, has its own brand of modern cool. Here are 8 designs Dwell loves from the city. Slideshow

A Vancouver architect maxes out a commercial lot to create a multiunit prefab tower that takes smart urban planning as seriously as good design. Each of the residences has outdoor space attached to it; the family’s unit has a roof deck. In 
lieu of a green roof is a galvanized tub filled with grasses—a collaboration between the architects 
and landscape architecture firm space2place. Photo by Kamil Bialous.