The Globe and Mail

Housing the homeless and affordability for the rest of us generates a lot of talk these days in Vancouver. A few — a very few — are also doing something about it. One doing very much indeed is Gregory Henriquez, the Vancouver architect at the forefront of social housing innovation as a partner at the design firm founded by his father, Richard. Henriquez Jr. is the key designer for three highly original designs at the leading edge of social housing thinking — not just for this city, but continent-wide: Bruce Eriksen Place; the Lore Krill Co-op; and the massive Woodwards mixed-use redevelopment. All three projects are found in a handsome new book on the young architect's work to date, an amply-illustrated volume with the somewhat ponderous title of Towards An Ethical Architecture: Issues Within the Work of Gregory Henriquez.