"For the Eddie Bauer space, we have leased that to Knix – the Canadian women's intimate-wear brand." "We have offers in negotiation on the Cactus Club space," Marcus and Millichap senior vice-president Martin Moriarty told BIV. The upper level of that former Milestones restaurant has been turned into office space. The new Swatch store will replace the lower level of what was a Milestones restaurant in the building known as John Robson Place. Eddie Bauer closed its 3,000-square-foot store at 1150 Robson Street. "There's been a few openings, but it's been a bit slow "Ĭactus Club last year closed its restaurant at 1136 Robson Street which had 2,884 square feet on the second floor, and 1,400 square feet on the ground floor. "It's a very welcome addition to the 1100 block or Robson Street, which has seen a few retail closures recently," he said. The stand-alone stores promise to elevate the Swatch brand for consumers while helping the watchmaker profit more by cutting out third-party sellers, Retail Insider Media owner Craig Patterson told BIV. More than 100 retail stores across Canada sell Swatch watches. The company also plans to open a third Toronto store and a first store in Calgary this summer. is at Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby. ![]() Its only other Swatch-branded store in B.C. It has 11 stand-alone stores branded Swatch in Canada, including one that recently opened on Government Street in Victoria. has more than a dozen brands, including Omega, Tissot and Longines. The brand is also known to Vancouverites for having a gigantic replica of a Swatch watch at the city's world's fair Expo '86 – an installation in front of the Swiss pavilion that was as tall as an eight-storey building and 20 metres wide, which made it a common meeting spot for fairgoers. This will be a return to Robson Street for Swatch, which decades ago operated a store on Robson Street. "Teaching with Architectural Drawings and Photographs.The world's largest watch company plans to once again have a stand-alone Vancouver store under its Swatch brand – a flagship location at 1155 Robson Street set to open in September. "Architectural Drawings," Architecture, Anyone?, Ada Louise Huxtable, University of California Press, 1986, p.Sometimes the best communicator wins the prize. "In fact," writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "one thing that architectural drawings make abundantly clear is that the architect worthy of the name is an artist first of all." The germ of the idea, these drawings, is communicated to a world outside the brain. Putting form to an idea is an art in itself, or perhaps a god-like manifestation of crossing a synapse. Ideas spring from the mind, in a soup of energy, chemistry, and firing neurons. Leonardo's last years were spent in France, designing a city that was never built. Really, they are a collection of his ideas in sketch format. The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci are world-famous. Sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1472 to 1519. The copper clad sculpture was made in France and shipped in pieces to the United States, but the design and construction of Lady Liberty's pedestal has its own design history. Hunt didn't make the iconic Statue of Liberty, but he designed a place for her to stand tall. Richard Morris Hunt is also well-known for his public architecture, especially a very famous pedestal. Hunt went on to design many more mansions in Newport during America's Gilded Age, as well as the largest residence in the United States - the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. This "modern Gothic" design became known as "American Stick Style," but it was new for a home near Newport, Rhode Island. The home he designed was innovative for the 1860s, as he suggested medieval half-timbering for decoration instead of structural. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (cropped)Įarly in his career, architect Richard Morris Hunt (1828 - 1895) made sketches for the newly married John and Jane Emmet Griswold. ![]() Sketch for Griswold house, now Newport Art Museum), Newport, Rhode Island.
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