Richard Henriquez: back to the future
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In an homage to the origins of the area, which once housed wood-frame cabins and a teahouse, Richard’s design of concrete-embedded imprints in the lobby and parking lot are a subtle salute to the original site. Landscaped with hand-sculpted, coloured concrete tree-trunk planters filled with indigenous ferns, the building commemorates the vast forests that once enveloped the area.
“The first Jews came to Jamaica fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in 1665, and at the time the British had conquered the island. My ancestors arrived from Britain, and that’s where I was brought up,” Richard explains. He laughs, “I still have a few cousins there who keep the only synagogue going.” Richard’s many awards include the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Gold Medal in 2005, a Governor General’s Medal in 1994 and the Order of Canada in 2017 for his contributions to architecture in Canada.
The documentary also showcases Richard’s insatiable creativity as an artist in his own right. His mesmerizing in-home cylindrical, which he designed, is re-imagined from the “cabinet of curiosities” made popular in the Italian Renaissance. Wood shelves and cabinets on a glass floor soar upwards towards the beamed ceiling’s skylight, displaying models, drawings and family mementoes.premiered at an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery before travelling to Italy for the 1996 Venice Biennale.
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