This project involved seismically upgrading an existing heritage-designated church building in downtown Vancouver.  Heritage preservation requirements called for no visible, physical intervention at the interior of the building. Hence the solution  for seismically upgrading this load-bearing brick building in its weak direction was to incorporate elegantly curved steel buttresses,  triangular in cross section at the east side of the building in a dedicated easement zone.

Vancouver, BC                          Architect: Perkins + Will Canada     Heritage Architect: Robert Lemon Architect Inc.                 Photo credit: Stephan Pasche

This project involved seismically upgrading an existing heritage-designated church building in downtown Vancouver.  Heritage preservation requirements called for no visible, physical intervention at the interior of the building. Hence the solution  for seismically upgrading this load-bearing brick building in its weak direction was to incorporate elegantly curved steel buttresses,  triangular in cross section at the east side of the building in a dedicated easement zone.

Vancouver, BC                          Architect: Perkins + Will Canada     Heritage Architect: Robert Lemon Architect Inc.                 Photo credit: Stephan Pasche

This project involved seismically upgrading an existing heritage-designated church building in downtown Vancouver.  Heritage preservation requirements called for no visible, physical intervention at the interior of the building. Hence the solution  for seismically upgrading this load-bearing brick building in its weak direction was to incorporate elegantly curved steel buttresses,  triangular in cross section at the east side of the building in a dedicated easement zone.

Vancouver, BC                          Architect: Perkins + Will Canada     Heritage Architect: Robert Lemon Architect Inc.                 Photo credit: Stephan Pasche

This project involved seismically upgrading an existing heritage-designated church building in downtown Vancouver.  Heritage preservation requirements called for no visible, physical intervention at the interior of the building. Hence the solution  for seismically upgrading this load-bearing brick building in its weak direction was to incorporate elegantly curved steel buttresses,  triangular in cross section at the east side of the building in a dedicated easement zone.

Vancouver, BC                          Architect: Perkins + Will Canada     Heritage Architect: Robert Lemon Architect Inc.                 Photo credit: Stephan Pasche