The Vancouver building was finished in October.
It had taken three years from the commission to the completion and in that time it had expanded from a significant commission into something that the architecture press had been following with the particular attention reserved for things that are doing something genuinely new.
Callum called on a Tuesday when the final touch was complete.
“It’s done,” he said. “Come and see it.”
We drove up on a Saturday with Rose and October and the specific excitement of seeing something that has been described and anticipated and is now available to be experienced directly.
The building was on the waterfront, which Callum had fought for against every practical argument that said otherwise, and the water gave it the context it needed, the mountains behi
