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4 HSBC Building
885 W Georgia St. Map 2 F2.
 Burrard. @ 2, 22. Tel (604) 683-
8144. 7 - = ∑ 885westgeorgia.
com Pendulum Gallery: Open 9am–
6pm Mon–Wed, 9am–9pm Thu & Fri,
9am–5pm Sat. Closed major hols.
The skylit atrium is a striking
entrance to the HSBC Building,
a 24-story tower which houses,
among others, offices of the
Hong Kong Bank of Canada.
A stunning seven-story kinetic
pendulum hangs from the Logger’s Culls (c.1935) by Emily Carr, Vancouver Art Gallery
ceiling. Swinging in a graceful
20-ft (6-m) arc 11,232 times architect known for his Gothic 6 Robson Square
each day, the hollow 3,527-lb design of Victoria’s Parliament and Law Courts
(1,600-kg) brushed-aluminum building and Fairmont Empress
sculpture by BC artist Alan Hotel (see p253). The interior 800 Hornby St. Map 2 F2–F3.
Tel (604) 660-8989.  Vancouver
Storey is enhanced by the was modernized in 1983 by City Centre. @ 5. Open 9am–4pm
building’s postmodern style. Arthur Erickson, another noted Mon–Fri. Closed major hols. 7 0
The atrium’s Pendulum architect, who designed the ∑ robsonsquare.ubc.ca
Gallery shows works of UBC Museum of Anthropology
Canadian contemporary artists (see pp234–5). Designed by BC architect Arthur
and international photographers. Among an impressive Erickson, the four-level Robson
Local musicians sometimes assortment of Canadian Square stretches several blocks.
play the baby grand piano art, including works by the On Robson Street’s south side,
next to the café. Group of Seven, the gallery on the square’s first level, trees
houses the world’s largest and a waterfall provide a shaded
collection of paintings by one background to Alan Chung
of Canada’s best-loved artists, Hung’s red steel sculpture,
Emily Carr. Born in Victoria in Spring. Steps to the right of the
1871, Carr studied local First waterfall lead to a pool and
Nations cultures, capturing parkette offering a good view
their way of life and the scenery north. From here, a walkway
of the western coastline in her leads to the law courts, built
sketchbook. She often depicted from 1974 to 1979. Jack Harman’s
Haida artifacts such as totem statue Themis Goddess of Justice
poles in her pictures. Her overlooks the Great Hall. An
palette is dominated by the impressive but controversial (it
blues, greens, and grays of is prone to leaking) steel frame
the stormy West Coast. rises four stories above the hall.

The Iron Road
In 1886, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald fulfilled his promise to
The magnificent pendulum suspended build the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to unite the new Dominion
in the HSBC Building of Canada. The Iron Road linked eastern financial centers and the
emerging lumber town
5 Vancouver Art of Vancouver. The first
Gallery cross-Canada passenger
train arrived in Vancouver
750 Hornby St. Map 2 F2. on May 23, 1887 (see
Tel (604) 662-4719.  Burrard. p206). The Iron Road was
@ 5. Open 10am–5pm daily completed at last. Progress
(to 9pm Tue). & 7 8 - = came at the price of many
∑ vanartgallery.bc.ca lives, including those of
over 600 Chinese laborers,
What was once British many of whom did the
Columbia’s imposing provincial most dangerous of jobs,
courthouse now houses the clearing and grading the
Vancouver Art Gallery. The roadbed and securing rail The first cross-Canada passenger train arriving
building was created in 1906 ties with gravel. in Vancouver in 1887
by Francis Rattenbury, an

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