West Van clubhouse
noted for refinement

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second-floor framing. The architects
installed timber frames and purlins to
carry the roof loads, leaving the orig-
inal rafters exposed as ceiling finish.

The jury enjoyed the result,
describing the renovation as “very
competently handled.”

The smallish renovation of the
clubhouse of the West Vancouver
Yacht Club by David Weiser
Architect of West Vancouver
pleased the jury for its “level of
sophistication and refinement, a
small project with high esthetic
value.”

The renovation included a new
entrance lobby and canopy all con-
structed and finished with wood
products. Low cost, availability and
ease of use made wood the best
choice of material, a medium han-
dled with skill and taste.

The firm, Farouk Noormohamed
Architect, garnered the final Merit
Award for the Lions Gate Ismali
Centre in West Vancouver.

The project is a case study of

wood as pure decoration, in this
example as embellishment of a mun-
dane steel building that once served
as aftennis club. The budget did not
allow for re-chidding the building so
the architect reduced the building
scale by applying wood lattice bands
to the exterior and by erecting a
series of portal frames covered with
intricate wood lattice, Traditional
decorative Islamic surface treatments
culminate in the interior wall panels
of Douglas-fir lattice,

The jury found the project “beau-
tiful and elegant in its use of wood,

and restrained in its representation of

the building's significance.”

The Wood Design Awards
Program encourages excellence in
building design using wood, the only
renewable building product. In
awarding the work of architects, the
program acknowledges their signifi-
cant contributions to our society.

The Canadian Wood Council is
the national association representing
the Canadian wood products indus-
try. For more information cal] D.L.
Griffith or R.G. LeVasseur at 1-800-
463-5091, (613) 731-7800.

Fifth generation now at home

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for the summer. Upon talking to a
Union Steamship Company brilder,
my grandfather reserved to rent the
cabin that was to be built on this site.
All the Union Steamship cabins were
erected through the winter. From the
summer of 1920, my family rented
this cabin every summer through the

mid-60s when it was purchased by
the three Poole sisters and their hus-
bands. The Poole grandparents were
deceased then, but their daughters
and their husbands, with their chil-
dren, continued to enjoy this family
legacy.

“Now in the 1990s the fifth gen-
eration children of Clarence and
Henrietta Poole are very much a part
of Bowen Island.”

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