Fashion Monday with JJ Lee

On Friday, Nick Sully and Hannah Teicher won the Cleveland Design Competition - Project 2007. The architectural designers received the nod for their proposal for the down-and-out neighbourhood of Irishtown Bend in Cleveland. Described by organizers as, "unused, overgrown, and largely inaccessible," Sully and Teicher proposed turning the abandoned riverside site into an urban agricultural wetland that would bridge two adjacent neighbourhoods with walkways. Check out their winning project . And here's Teicher beginning the interview with a d escription of the project . Note: Nick Sully recently started his own architectural practice in Vancouver. To find out more visit nicksully.com . Hannah Teicher is an architectural intern with a diverse developing practicing combining sociology and architecture.

The city of Vancouver is trying to complete a seawall circuit around the downtown peninsula but it has to go through one of the city's most historically rich and socially complex streets: Carrall Street. To complete the Seawall walk, Carrall Street will go through a makeover. It's refered to as the " Carrall Street Greenway Project ". Carrall Street will be the final piece of a puzzle creating a waterfront walk going from Crab Park in Gastown, all along the Burrard Inlet, around Stanley Park to a seawall along False Creek through Livingston Park to the border of Chinatown and Downtown or International Village. The design is meant to attract tourists and encourage a vibrant street life for residents in the area. It may not be the most expensive project in the city, it's only $5 million, but it is one of the major undertakings by the city even when held against major infrastructure projects such as the $1.7 billion RAV line. Like the Woodwards development, the Carra...

Mary Beth Rondeau is an architect with the City of Vancouver. She believes design decisions can help fight crime. Hear Rondeau's CBC interview with JJ Lee. It aired as part of a special series called, "On the Case with On The Coast." Listen.

The Whitecaps' proposal to build a new soccer stadium received a red card from the Vancouver Heritage Commission today. The VHC declared it "detrimental" to the heritage values of Gastown on Monday afternoon. The decision, while not binding, is one of several negative responses from advisory commissions who report to Vancouver's city council. The football club wants to build a 15 000-seat stadium over the railyard between Granville Square and Cambie Street. It would have to be built 10 metres above the tracks creating what some fear would be a giant wall on the northern edge of Gastown. Commissioner Cheryl Cooper said, "It flies completely in the face of what the Heritage Commission has been trying to achieve in Gastown and would disrupt the neighbourhood and the quality of life." VHC member James Burton said, "It would obliterate what you see from the water." Another member, Cam Cathcart, said the scale of the project "appalls me." But n...