Vancouver: Vancouver’s Coolest Public Art: Douglas Coupland's Digital Orca: "
Photo: Ted Topping
Vancouver is still basking in the afterglow of the 2010 Winter Olympics and one of the best remnants of the Games is the public art that now decorates the city’s parks and buildings. For the next few weeks, Jaunted's Vancouver Embed Tuija Seipell of The Cool Hunter will be reporting on the best of the bunch.
If you showed up in Vancouver right now and only had the time to see one piece of public art, I’d recommend you head to see Douglas Coupland’s Digital Orca. It is located outside the new Vancouver Convention Centre that acted as the Broadcast Media Center for the Olympics (the ”old” Convention Centre right next to it was home of the print media).
The Orca is also immediately next to the outdoor Olympic cauldron, originally lit by Wayne Gretzky during the opening ceremonies. In a handy three-for-one, you’ll get to see the Orca, the cauldron and the new Convention Centre, plus you’ll enjoy a fantastic view of the North Shore Mountains, too.
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