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The Einstein On The Line photo contest has a winner! Congratulations to Sophia Cheng for her bubbles and violin submission! You get to take home a Nikon D7000 camera grand prize!

While this contest, presented by Intracorp Realty Ltd. and Rennie Marketing Systems, was certainly fun, the other purpose of Einstein On The Line was to highlight Intracorp’s latest development MC², its proximity to The Canada Line, as well as its sustainable amenities, like pocket parks, green roofs and urban agriculture plots.

As most of us know, Vancouver is a huge supporter of transit and eco initiatives that will help make this city be the greenest by 2020.

With over 150 submissions in just two weeks, a big thanks goes out to all participants who used their creativity and humor all around town. Einstein was popping up everywhere! You can check them all out here on Intracorp’s Facebook page.
 
You made Albert — and Vancouver — proud. 
 
To stay in-the-know on our launch, you can still register for MC²  by visiting www.intracorp.ca.

Here are our top five runners-up, too!
 
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We all know that Einstein was a genius and a pretty extraordinary human being, too.

Intracorp‘s soon-to-be-built MC² development at Marine and Cambie is extraordinary, too — and genius for five reasons:

#1: Architecture by James Cheng.

#2: Yet-to-be-revealed public art installation by Vancouver’s own writer-artist-multi-hyphenate Douglas Coupland.

#3: Right at The Canada Line and clocking in at only 13 minutes to get downtown. The average car produces 29.6 pounds of carbon dioxide a day, making transit the better and more sustainable option in this green city!

#4: Everything good comes in two’s. This development has two high speed elevators, two concierges, two fitness centres, two pockets parks and two green roofs.

#5: Urban agriculture plots to grow your own fruits and veggies. MC² will have 12 of them!

If you already didn’t know about the Einstein On The Line photo contest, there are only four days left until the October 8 deadline (that’s this coming Monday)! There’ve been some very ingenious and creative photos submitted already. Check out the album!

Get in on the photo fun — download an Einstein mask here, take a picture, email it to einstein@intracorp.ca and show us what you’ve got!

And who doesn’t want an awesome Nikon D7000 camera, anyway?

Only week left in the Einstein On The Line photo contest, presented by Intracorp Realty Ltd. and Rennie Marketing Systems!

Some great snapshots were taken during the V.I.A. photo meet up at the MC² Presentation Centre at Marine and Cambie this past Saturday — can’t wait to see what else people have to submit.

In case you forgot how to participate, here’s how:

1. Download the mask here.

2. Take a fun photo using the Einstein mask in a creative way.

3. Submit your photo to einstein@intracorp.ca.

4. You will be notified once your photo is up in the Einstein On The Line album on Intracorp’s Facebook page.

5. Make sure you share with your friends!

Did we mention the winner, chosen at random, wins a Nikon D7000 camera (valued at $1,500)?

Contest runs until Monday, October 1, 2012, so get those photos in — here’s a collection of fun ones taken over the last week!

Albert Einstein? He sure was one smart man. 
 
Taking transit? Also very smart, especially in Vancouver, where a one minute walk to Marine Station to ride the Canada Line means only 13 minutes to get downtown.  
 
Vancouver Is Awesome has teamed up with Intracorp Realty Ltd. and Rennie Marketing Systems for a fun interactive photo contest around the new MC² development at Marine and Cambie. It officially kicks off this Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 12pm!
 

 
The steps are easy: 
 
1. Hop on the Canada Line and head to the new MC² community.
 
2. Pick up an Einstein mask from the MC² Presentation Centre, located at 8160 Cambie Street. For those downtown, you can also pick up at mask at 322-309 W. Cordova.
 
3. Take a fun photo showing what life is like living on the Canada Line, using the Einstein mask in a creative way.
 
4.  Submit your photo to einstein@intracorp.ca.
 
5. You will be notified once your photo is up in the Einstein On The Line album on Intracorp’s Facebook page. 
 
6. Make sure you share with your friends! 
 
The winner, chosen at random, wins a Nikon D7000 camera (valued at $1,500).
 
MC² is Intracorp’s latest community to launch in the Cambie Corridor neighbourhood. Located at the intersection of Marine and Cambie to take advantage of the Canada Line, new homeowners will have quick access to downtown Vancouver or the airport, allowing them to live without the need of a car. Designed by world-renowned architect, James K.M. Cheng, MC² will also include public art created by none-other than world-renowned artist and author, Douglas Coupland (wait till you see the reveal!).
 
V.I.A. is hosting an Einstein On The Line photo meet-up on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 12pm. Jump on the Canada Line to MC², and take pictures together with other Einstein fans.
 
Einstein On The Line runs from September 22 through to October 8th, 2012. Take that camera or smartphone, and get snapping!
 

Bing Thom has carved out his name in architecture over the decades, working on award-winning projects here and around the world.

He’s is a busy man, but never too busy to be one of the city’s leading voices for social activism, as well as arts and culture promotion. Right now, Bing is hard at work proposing an underground concert hall-slash-cultural hub, designed to be at the current Vancouver Art Gallery location.

Not only is he a wealth of knowledge and of life experience (and a Member of the Order of Canada!), he’s also someone who has always been is committed to doing the right thing.

And that makes Bing Thom an awesome addition to this Building Block series.

Photo: Brice Ferre

You grew up in Hong Kong first, then moved to Vancouver. Where did you grow up here?

BT: I grew up in Kerrisdale because my parents decided they wanted to move into a neighbourhood where there were no other Chinese people, so I could learn English. We were virtually the only asians in the neighbourhood. Growing up and through university, I hardly had any asian friends, but now it’s a little different. And now I’m in Kitsilano.

After university, you went to Japan. What made you move back?

BT: I was in Japan, China and Singapore. Then I figured, you have to find one place you can call home. You have to find where your roots are. My wife was drawn to come back, and I said, well, that’s probably my home.

My history is that my father was born here, and I was born in Hong Kong. In the 1930s, my father experienced a lot of discrimination in Vancouver and in the US because you couldn’t practice as a professional—he was a pharmacist and graduated from USC. When he came back to Canada, they said he couldn’t practice here, not because he was Chinese but because he wasn’t a Canadian citizen, even though he was born here. Back then, there was no such thing as Canadian citizenship. You were a British subject, and the British did not accept asians as subjects. He got fed up. During that time and before the Second World War, there was a war between China and Japan, so he decided to go back to China. He virtually immigrated back.

I figured my grandfather came, my father went back and I’m now rejecting North America, because I was in Berkeley at the time and was in this Third World strike, striking for Asian-American history. I went to Singapore after, but then asked myself, how many generations is it going to be, with this back and forth? I better find my roots, fight for what I believe in and just stay there. So that’s why I came back. And that’s why I’m socially active. You have to find your place. And this is my place now.
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You may have seen her work at Abbott and Hastings, a souvenir of her participation in Paint Your Faith last spring. Or you may have seen her stencil from the very few pictures that came out of the super secret Underbelly Project in New York last fall.

Indigo, nee Shallom Johnson, is an artist in every sense of the word: painter, stenciler, typographer, dancer, choreographer, writer and soon-to-be filmmaker. Despite having worked in the company of international artists like Workhorse, Peeta and Remi/Rough and being constantly involved in various projects all over the world, Indigo still finds time to teach classes at Purple Thistle and to find beauty in the roughness of her downtown eastside neighbourhood.

And that makes her awesome.

Where did you grow up, and what brought you to Vancouver?

I was born in Victoria, but my family moved up to Burns Lake, in Northern BC, when I was four years old. After high school I came to Vancouver and went to SFU. I did a BFA in Contemporary Dance, with an extended minor in English. I’ve been here ever since.

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