{"id":1528,"date":"2012-11-25T01:43:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2012-11-25T01:43:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T09:43:36","slug":"the-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"The Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lobbies of most residential buildings are forgettably drab &#8212; you walk through them on your way to the elevator and nothing registers. Not so with the entry to Kenstone&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sageliving.ca\/\" title=\"Sage UBC\"  target=\"_blank\">Sage<\/a> in the Wesbrook Place community of UBC.  The lobby reflects the forest surrounding the building, with huge planks of rough cedar that look like they were painted on the walls with a palette knife. Designer Merike Lainevool of <a href=\"http:\/\/kodudesign.ca\" title=\"Kodu Design\" target=\"_blank\">Kodu Design<\/a> filled the main floor lounge with comfortable sofas and low-slung tables that invite you to sit down and enjoy the reflecting pools that grace the building&#8217;s front.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_4996_4998_4999_5000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_4996_4998_4999_5000.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_4996_4998_4999_5000\" width=\"900\" height=\"514\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_4996_4998_4999_5000.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_4996_4998_4999_5000-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5001_2_3a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5001_2_3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_5001_2_3a\" width=\"900\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5001_2_3a.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5001_2_3a-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5017_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5017_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_5017_8\" width=\"900\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5017_8.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_5017_8-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lobbies of most residential buildings are forgettably drab &#8212; you walk through them on your way to the elevator and nothing registers. Not so with the entry to Kenstone&#8217;s Sage in the Wesbrook Place community of UBC. The lobby reflects the forest surrounding the building, with huge planks of rough cedar that look like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interior-design","category-uncategorized","category-west-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}