I killed two birds with one stone on Monday. I voted at an advance poll and I got a shot of the new Sunset Community Centre.
Yes, Canada is having a Federal Election. I doubt this is on anyone's radar outside of Canada. I'll be working at a polling place on October 14 so I needed to vote ahead of time.
Canada has it's share of froot loops and gumballs in office or hoping to be elected. The whole sad mess can be entertaining if one can maintain a sense of humour. But, frankly, in terms of pure entertainment value, we have nothing to compete with Sarah Palin. Not even close. We had a leader's debate the same night and time Palin debated Biden and lots of Canucks chose to watch the US debate or at least surfed back and forth.
Sunset Community Centre is Vancouver's newest. Designed by Bing Thom, featured here a while back. I'm pleased the city hired such a distinguished architect to design a community centre. Most of our existing community centres are from the '1950s high school' or 'bomb shelter' school of design. I want to like this building, I'm glad it was built, but I'm having some trouble warming up to it. It appears to be getting good use and that's the main thing.
The Park Board folks really know their lawns. This one is looking pretty splotchy but I reckon they'll get it ship shape by next spring.
Architect: Bing Thom
Completed: 2008
