Lulu Speaker Series
The Lulu Series: Bing Thom
Bing ThomTransformative Architecture

Photo: Arena Stage, Washington, DC
Bing Thom Architects (Vancouver) have produced a portfolio of built work that garners praise not only for its inspired spaces and forms, but for the inspirational role their buildings play in the lives of the communities they call home. Founding Principal, Bing Thom, will share his experience in the transformative power of architecture to uplift the physical, economic and social environment.
Thom is one of Canada’s most admired, celebrated and accomplished architects. A dedicated and artful city-builder, his global reputation has risen in consort with that of Vancouver, the city he has done much to protect, and to improve.
Among Thom’s successes are the master plans for the City of Dalian and the City of Yuxi in China; the creation of a new city centre for Surrey, BC with Surrey Central City; the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC; the Aberdeen Centre in Richmond, BC; the Pacific Canada Pavilion at the Vancouver Aquarium and Marine Science Centre; the Trinity Uptown Plan for Fort Worth, Texas; Vancouver’s Sunset Community Centre; and the recently completed Arena Stage theatre complex in Washington, DC.

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