Architecture and Design Film Festival: Vancouver not just for those in the business
If you have spent any time in Vancouver looking around there’s probably a good chance your eyes have landed on a Richard Henriquez building.
Notable ones on a long list include the Sylvia Tower, Eugenia Place, Sinclair Centre, Woodward’s Redevelopment, Telus Garden Office, UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories, and the B.C. Cancer Research Centre.
Henriquez is the focus of the Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard film Richard Henriquez: Building Stories. The film is one of 15 full-length documentary films and shorts featured in the Architecture and Design Film Festival: Vancouver (ADFF), which runs Nov. 9-12 at the Hollywood Theatre and the VIFF Centre in Vancouver. Many of the films will include speakers and audience Q&A opportunities.
“He helped make the West End what it is,” said ADFF founder and festival director Kyle Bergman during a phone conversation from New York recently. “His contribution to the beautiful density of Vancouver if critical.”
Froome and Bernard, who delivered the much-heralded film Coast Modern in 2012, have delivered a tight, interesting 30-minute look at the guy who got people talking after he put the big oak tree on the top of a 17-storey apartment building (Eugenia Place) on Beach Ave., and who covered the side of the B.C. Cancer building with big circular windows that were designed to replicate petri dishes complete with organisms (humans) working together on the other side.