Street Address

Queen Elizabeth Park

Architect

Underwood, McKinley, Cameron, Wilson & Smith

Thorson & Thorson (structural engineers)

Dates From

1969

Material Type

building

Source

Sun: Dec 9, 1971, p. 55, B.C. project wins award for design of people places.

Province: Dec 9, 1971, p. 30, Three Massey awards to B.C., illus.

Heritage Vancouver Newsletter, June 2003, p. 2, Vancouver's year-round jungle, by Robert Moffatt, ill.

Notes

Legal description: D.L. 526, Blk. 761.

Gift to Vancouver by Mr. and Mrs. Bloedel.

Patterened after Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes. Frame is 140 feet in diameter and 70 feet high, infilled by 1,500 triangular Plexiglass bubbles in 32 shapes and sizes.

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