Blog Posts tagged: rain
Featured Event – Draft Principles for Rain-Friendly Public Spaces (Workshop)
Early in 2019, we’ll be launching our Life Between Umbrellas design competition to encourage the creation of rain-friendly public spaces. Even more exciting: we’re working on an agreement with the City of Vancouver to help deliver this exciting initiative. As part of... Continue reading »
Deliberately designing outdoor public spaces for rain and winter activities.
By Jada Stevens. Lead Photo by Wylie Poon Studies have shown that time spent outside is beneficial to mental and physical well being – in a number of different ways. In adults, depression rates decrease with outdoor physical activity and... Continue reading »
Seasonal Effective Design – Placemaking for the Rainy Months
Hey, do you want to support a great local placemaking venture? Our friends at Frida & Frank have been enlivening public spaces around town with their pop-up ping pong tables. We had them at our Laneway Living Room event in... Continue reading »
Rainy Spaces 2: Benthemplein – Rotterdam’s Water Square
It has certainly been a rainy winter in Vancouver. Unfortunately, it seems as though it’s only getting rainier: the overall annual number of high intensity rainfall days have increased here since the mid 1970s, likely an effect of urbanization and... Continue reading »
Rainy Spaces 1: Vancouver, meet Singapore
Vancouver is a city challenged with a climatic contradiction. Hemmed in between mountains and ocean, the city is fortunate to be home to one of the most moderate climates in Canada. It also has to contend with some of the wettest weather conditions,... Continue reading »