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New Oakridge Food Hall renderings revealed

The future ‘Food Hall’ at Oakridge will blur the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, and form part of a new, four-storey building with landscaped gardens on top.

As part of the massive redevelopment of Oakridge Centre by Westbank and QuadReal, several development applications for different phases of the project are making their way through Vancouver city hall.

This application includes the new multi-level food court, known as the Food Hall, as well as:

  • the Living Room, an interior gathering space and primary “intersection” in the shopping centre
  • a community garden and wildflower meadows atop the structure

The architects describe the interior spaces as “emerging from below the draped landscaping of the roof.” The Food Hall will have access to fresh air and daylight through operable glass façades and skylights.

Renderings: Oakridge Food Hall & Meadow Gardens

View of Food Hall interior looking southeast
View of Food Hall interior looking southeast. Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects
Aerial view of the Meadow Gardens looking west
Aerial view of the Meadow Gardens looking west. Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects
View from the Commons looking northeast
View from the Commons looking northeast. Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects
View from the Commons looking north
View from the Commons looking north. Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects

A teahouse is also planned atop the Food Hall, surrounded by a minimalist Japanese garden.

The architects at Henriquez Partners describe the design concept as follows:

“The architectural expression is both urban and topographical, combining multiple positive attributes found in the history of cities. Fundamental principals were distilled from disparate planning movements from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City movement of the late 19th century to Le Corbusier’s Radiant City. Poetic inspirations range from Italian hilltop towns to the urban street walls of Europe. Each of these precedents addressed the relationship between nature and the urban fabric.”

Read more of urbanYVR‘s extensive coverage on the redevelopment of Oakridge Centre here.

Oakridge revised rezoning application
A revised rezoning application seeks to increase building heights above those approved in the Oakridge Design Guidelines (2018), ranging from increases of 1 metre to 30 metres to allow up to nine additional storeys. Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects
Oakridge revised rezoning application
A revised rezoning application seeks to increase building heights above those approved in the Oakridge Design Guidelines (2018), ranging from increases of 1 metre to 30 metres to allow up to nine additional storeys. Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects
688 West 41st Avenue Oakridge towers mountains
Credit: Henriquez Partners Architects

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Peter Meiszner
Peter Meiszner
Peter Meiszner is an experienced journalist and media relations professional, based in Vancouver. As founder of urbanYVR.com, he has been reporting on urban development across the Lower Mainland since 2016, and has also served as vice-chair of the Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee. In October 2022, he was elected to Vancouver city council and is no longer actively reporting for urbanYVR.

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