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Feb 18, 2011 | 8:20 pm

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Positive review on the Pacific Rim in NYT:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/02/20...-fairmont.html

Design here is distinctly oriented toward the East, with a 180-foot-long sculpture by the master origami artist Joseph Wu, a pan-Asian restaurant named ORU (Japanese for “to fold”) and a “rice wall” installation made of stainless steel screens. The Fairmont Pacific Rim is the company’s fourth property in Vancouver (three are downtown, and there’s also the excellent Fairmont Vancouver Airport hotel). The new 22-floor glass-walled tower was designed by the architect James K. M. Cheng; its street number, 1038, sounds like the phrase “road to riches” in Chinese. The in-house cafe and bakery serves sake hot chocolate, while the lobby lounge has its own raw bar and serves afternoon tea (with special “tranquility” and “energy” brews). Rooms overlook the waterfront and the North Shore mountains beyond — you can watch floatplanes take off and land.