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Announcing the Finalists for the 2025 Western Living Design 25 Awards
A peek into Sholto Design Studio's Blood Alley apartment entryway, one of the winners of our first annual WL Design 25 awards.
It’s an apartment lobby unlike any other in the city. But as surreal as the all-white bar scene in the entryway of Vancouver’s Blood Alley building may be, designer Sholto Scruton (of Sholto Design Studio) based the tableau on the neighbourhood’s very real history. “It serves to link the past to the present,” writes Scruton in his submission.
Period-correct details like a bar, poker table (complete with chips and cards) and tailored coats fill the space to replicate the saloon that once existed at the 1911 Cordova Street address—but this time, covered in ghostly white paint. Is the horse stepping through a mirror historically accurate? Only Scruton knows for sure.
Project: Blood Alley apartment entryway Designer: Sholto Design Studio Collaborators: Henriquez Architects (architect), Westbank (developer) Location: Vancouver
Meet all of the 2024 WL Design 25 winners here.
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