Icon of the West End: Ocean Towers Vancouver- 1835 Morton Ave
Ocean Towers might be my favourite building in Vancouver. Perhaps because I live here. But bias aside, there is something truly special about 1835 Morton Avenue . It sits directly on English Bay, with sweeping southwest-facing water views. The homes are large, the architecture is unapologetically mid-century and every suite looks out toward the water. Living here means birdsong and crashing waves, cotton-candy skies, occasional rainbows and storms rolling across the bay. It is all equally entertaining. Completed around 1960, Ocean Towers is a 68-home concrete market equity co-op. It is also a building that helped change the way Vancouver designed residential towers. Before Ocean Towers Before the West End became a neighbourhood of high-rises, Morton Avenue was lined with houses, shops and smaller rental buildings. The most prominent building on this site was Morton Lodge , which stood on the north side of Morton Avenue between Denman and Gilford. It appeared around 1909 and was k...