2024-12-22T08:54:28-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/137970616/a-wrap-up-of-vancouver-s-city-fabric Julia Ingalls 2015-10-01T19:00:00-04:00 >2015-10-08T01:25:11-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/eq/eq5igmvugregulb8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Construction safety netting may not sound like the stuff which picturesque <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/137194843/can-vancouver-break-out-of-its-boring-architecture-mold-with-these-new-ambitious-skyscrapers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cityscapes</a> are made of, and yet: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/137820408/herzog-de-meuron-s-concept-for-new-vancouver-art-gallery-released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vancouver, B.C</a>. was host to an art installation known as "City Fabric" this past August and September which produced more gorgeous visuals (and sly references to real estate speculation) than your typical netting.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/wa/wa6fx54eu3zkisfq.jpg"></p><p>Designed by artist Rebecca Bayer and architect Matthew Soules, the installation hung beneath the south side of Burrard Street Bridge between concrete piers as a kind of celebration of the ephemeral, specifically "the temporary permanence of construction debris netting; beautiful, impoverished for its utilitarian use, yet profoundly normal."&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/se/set8hipbaalh8tkd.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/yf/yfwtsrkrs0pwg1h5.jpg"></p><p>The installation, which was sponsored by 221A and The Burred Arts Foundation, officially closed on September 30th and consisted of 800 lineal feet of the netting.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/dc/dcledcds17tnaeey.jpg"></p>