More recently, in 1978 a penthouse suite was added to the top of the Arts building creating a defacto seventh floor. This penthouse suite has a sweeping patio on the roof of the building offering up some amazing views of downtown to the south, north, and east. There is a patio up top on the Riverview Tower offering sunbathed 11th floor vista. The old First Independent Bank building has a nice south facing patio off the fifth floor. The Main Place building was erected in 1991 and offers a patio off the 7th floor large enough to entertain a couple dozen executives.
Now I mentioned rooftop didn't I? Yes I did. 805 Broadway is one of the tallest structures in town, but rather than perch their patio way up high they made a third floor walkout on the roof of the lower section of the building. There's plenty of space to kick back and soak up some rays after a hard day and room to keep that 6 foot social distancing too. Almost as amazing is the rooftop patios on much shorter building like the one atop 275 west third street which is a one story building! I would have never noticed it until I spied it one day while checking out a a fourth floor suite in the new Hurley Building. But that's not the half of it, there's even a sweet municipal pad on the third floor of City Hall! Yes our 6 floor city hall has a shorter 2 story entrance area with a roof top patio accessed on the third floor of the main building. Yes the 'Couv' knows how get down at lunch on a nice summer day.
The new waterfront is no stranger to this secret obsession with the rooftop rendezvous. The Rediviva apartment building has a 7th floor rooftop patio with a BBQ and mini kitchen setup, The Murdock office building next door features a nice patio off the seventh floor as well. Not to be outdone, nearby Riverwest has an enormous patio in between the taller East, North, and South wings accessed from the third floor, this has benches, BBQ, even a putting green! The new Columbia building on block 20 wants to one up em' with a second floor rooftop access and an infinity pool giving the illusion of spilling over the building's edge into the mighty Columbia River. Kirkland's now topped out condo tower has a similar setup with a kitchen and community room on the twelfth floor that leads out to a large roof top patio. Indigo hotel will have a sky lounge on the eight floor with a large open patio overlooking the river later this year.Many of the apartment buildings that have gone up recently feature decks and patios for the use of the building's residents that capitalize on urban views of the city. Yes it seems Vancouver USA has a bit of the roof top fetish and that is fine by me.
What ever you do be sure to enjoy the view!
