Close User Name Password
Login Register
Hotel stories straight to your inbox:

Tags: / / / / /

Coming Soon :: Poetic Skylines Courtesy of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Vancouver

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1011 West Cordova [map], Vancouver, BC, United States, V6C 0B2
August 28, 2008 at 11:02 AM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

We love coming across creative use of words in unexpected places -- pretty sentiments carved into cement or deep thoughts scrawled on bathroom walls -- so it made us smile to see that the new Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver is almost literally building their hotel with poetry.

The text of an original poem by Liam Gillick (a British artist) will wrap around the exteriors of the building all the way up to the 23rd floor.

While nobody has seen the full text of the poem quite yet, the Vancouver Sun reports a (probably unintentional) sneak peek:

The opening line was briefly visible this week, but now is carefully covered up. It reads: "lying on top of a building ... the clouds looked no nearer."

This makes us happy -- even though the hotel won't officially be open until 2009 and the full installation won't be unveiled until then.

More new hotels should make some room for public art in their budgets. Also: more men should write us poetry on the sides of buildings.

1 Comment

Post a Comment

Return to » Coming Soon :: Poetic Skylines Courtesy of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Vancouver

  1. bangerang

    HotelChatter Member

    Re: Coming Soon :: Poetic Skylines

    When my love swears that she is made of truth
    Here's one I whipped up real quick. I know it's not on the side of a building, but I figure a reasonably popular hotel blog is almost as good.

    I do believe her, though I know she lies,
    That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
    Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
    Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
    Although she knows my days are past the best,
    Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
    On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
    But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
    And wherefore say not I that I am old?
    O, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
    And age in love loves not to have years told:

    Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
    And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.

    August 28, 2008 at 10:37 AM
    #Permalink

Return to » Coming Soon :: Poetic Skylines Courtesy of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Vancouver

Leave a Comment

Not yet a member? Click here to become a member.

Already a member? Log in below:

Comment with your Facebook account.