Completion date: Parkade – August 2009, Hotel – December, 2011
Budget: $100 Million

Overview

The 5 storey, 192 room River Rock Hotel will be perched on top of a 700 ft. long, 7 storey, 1520 car parkade with offices and retail. It will be connected to the River Rock Casino resort to the north with a bridge across River Road. To the south there is another bridge connected to the new Canada Line skytrain station and bus loop.

The parkade opened in August 2009 coinciding with the completion of the Canada Line, and serves the park and ride patrons during the day and the casino patrons on evenings and weekends.

The DA Difference

The architectural design recognizes the emergence of a new entertainment precinct. The massing of the parkade is broken up by graphic screens, glazed stairs, trellises and canopies. The design intention of the hotel is to defer to the original Casino Resort while providing a variation on the theme, in what will be perceived as a family of thematically related buildings.