English Bay Beach Loop

The Sylvia Hotel wears a coat of dark ivy that scales its cream-colored brick facade. Built in nineteen twelve, it operated as a luxury apartment building before turning into a hotel during the second world war. In the nineteen fifties, it…

Fourteen bronze figures stand in Morey Park, each caught in a fit of hysterical, open-mouthed laughter. Their bodies twist and bend in exaggerated, contorted poses, some doubled over while others throw their heads back toward the sky.…

The giant, rusted metal figures of Inukshuk stand on the sand near the water’s edge at English Bay Beach. This spot became Vancouver’s first official swimming beach in the early twentieth century, long before the high-rise apartments…

Alexandra Park centers on a bronze statue of Sir Evelyn Wood, a British field marshal who never actually visited Vancouver. In nineteen oh eight, the city accepted the sculpture as a gift from a local businessman, Charles Woodward. The…

A jagged, human-like stack of granite blocks stands near the water, balanced without mortar. This is an Inukshuk, a traditional Inuit structure used for centuries as a wayfinding marker across the treeless Arctic landscape. The version…

Two massive, interconnected bronze wedding rings perch atop steel pillars at the intersection of Beach Avenue and Denman Street. Created by artist Dennis Oppenheim, these structures lean precariously toward one another as if caught in a…

Sunset Beach Park is defined by a gentle, grassy arc that hugs the mouth of False Creek, meeting the water with a wide stretch of sand rather than the jagged rocks found elsewhere along the shore. In the nineteen sixties, this land was a…