This unique apartment offers flexibility. It’s one legal address, but can be locked off to provide two private living units. The main component is a 2 bedroom/1 bathroom space with an open kitchen (with dishwasher) and living area. The living room has vaulted ceiling making the space very spacious. Windows face both north to tree-lined …
Read more Unit 33/34, 2 bedroom plus lock-off suite (1,031 sq ft)
The month of July was a very busy moving month for OUV members. Not only did we move into our units, we now have a common house, lounge and courtyard to organize. Our common house is rather fabulous and equipped with vast amounts of storage cupboards. These next few months will require efforts to organize …
Our last remaining 3BRM townhouse provides the feel of a spacious home in a dynamic urban setting. This unit is 1,147 sq ft over 2 levels. The outdoor patio and entrance are at the quiet end of the property facing tree-lined Ontario Place. Downstairs are the 3 bedrooms, a walk-in closet from the master bedroom, a second bathroom …
This apartment feels like a town house with its own entrance off tree-lined Ontario Place, its own front patio and higher ceilings (approx 13′) than the rest of the units, which makes it seem larger. There is no wasted space in this unit. It contains an open-concept kitchen (with dishwasher), living and sleeping areas and …
This unit is on the top (3rd) floor of the property, with windows facing north and a window and Juliet balcony facing east. The entry door is off the outdoor south facing 3rd floor double-wide walkway. The kitchen (includes dishwasher) is an open concept and is continuous with the well-lit living space which has vaulted …
A fifteen-minute neighbourhood walk. A five-minute rapid bus ride. A 6-minute bike ride. We’ll be just minutes away from the new Oakridge Community Centre, slated to be finished sometime in 2024. The centre is one of the community amenity contributions provided by the 28.4-acre redevelopment project of the old Oakridge Mall property. The new Oakridge …
Read more Just blocks from our doorstep: the new Oakridge Community Centre
There is no escaping the fact that housing in Vancouver is expensive. It’s all people talk about here in the city (apart from the rain) so despite all the great positives of living in cohousing it should be no surprise to anyone that market-priced cohousing also has a high entry point. As house prices continue …
Mark Shieh understands the power of transformative spaces — he started his career working as an Imagineer for the Walt Disney Company, designing theme parks. “I still have a little of that pixie dust in me,” he says, recalling how transfixed he was by the magic of Disney’s parks and how they felt like the …
Tomo House is being built to Passive House principles which fits well with our cohousing community’s commitment to live as sustainably as we can. The positive impacts of this type of construction were brought home to us recently when we had a workshop on how Passive House is being applied specifically within Tomo House. This …
In 2017 Our Urban Village began a partnership with innovative developers, Tomo (formerly known as Take Root) to build a cohousing community using a model that hadn’t been tried before in North America. OUV’s founders were struggling to find a way to build cohousing in one of North America’s priciest housing markets. When the cost …