The Landing
Location: 375 Water Street, Vancouver · Type: Heritage Conversion · Year: 1988
In 1988, Soren Rasmussen designed the conversion of the landmark Kelly, Douglas & Co. warehouse at 375 Water Street — a massive early-1900s brick-and-timber complex at the gateway to Gastown — into office, retail and restaurant use: the building known today as The Landing.
One of the largest heritage conversions of its era in Vancouver, the project preserved the warehouse's heavy timber fabric while opening it to contemporary commercial life beside Waterfront Station. The Landing remains among Metro Vancouver's premier landmark heritage office buildings and among the firm's most recognized works.
Rasmussen never really left the building: the studio later kept its own office at #450 – 375 Water Street, and in 1995 he returned to its foot as architect and co-founder of Steamworks Brew Pub.
Photography for this project has not yet been recovered from the archives.
