Granville Island is a well-known treasure located under the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver. Half of the visitors to Granville Island are Vancouverites and the others are tourists from other cities and countries. There is a university named for Emily Carr who is a loved Canadian artist, and there are large varieties of arts studios such as art glass, beads, carving, drawing, and pictures. Peter Jackson, who is a carver, has a studio in Granville Island and said, “I think, working in Granville Island is good luck, I can make a work of art and sell without a hardhearted gallery. The most joyful thing is talking with foreigners.”
However, there is a strange thing on Granville Island as an art culture space. Usually, people think that the art culture spaces are lined with art galleries, museums, theaters which are built by modern sense. Unexpectedly, the buildings in Granville Island are not modern. Their art galleries, souvenir shop, markets, coffee shop, restaurants have warehouse form and even the university.
Granville Island is filled with markets and art shops, but Granville Island was filled with warehouses and factories until the 1950s. The Federal Government made progress a development project in1970s, called The Granville Island Concept. Accordingly, theaters, restaurants, art shops, community centers started stood in the place that was a factory. The old factories and warehouses have been transformed into a stylish development of warehouse with a contemporary feel. The exterior of the buildings are still simple and rough, however, the buildings’ outer wall has own character. The buildings are painted by yellow, pink, green, and blue or putted in a small flowerpot at the windows. The buildings in Granville Island are not ware houses or factories anymore, the buildings are designed artistically. Granville Island was revived a new space escape a factory area.
The most famous remodeled warehouse for visitors is the Public Market. The Public Market was built with a red and white tin which looked like obviously a warehouse. Street artists perform in front of the entrance decorated with flowers- there is a flower shop, at the entrance- every weekend. The public market sells around six-thousand salmon, six hundred gallon soup per week. The Public Market became a tourist attraction to foreign visitors as sold fresh vegetables and fruit, fishes.
Also, the Starbucks coffee shop was built by tin. The Starbucks is located the entrance of Granville Island, near the bus stop. The external appearance is totally different we’ve seen. The Starbucks coffee shop doesn’t have a fixed form. The building represents freely styles in Granville Island.
Factories have been changed to a public space that is loved by everyone. That is thanks to cooperation of the federal government and citizens. The buildings must be permitted from the federal government before built in Granville Island. That is to maintain individuality in Granville Island buildings, and this effort is made artistic warehouses in Granville Island.
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