Restaurant
Romer’s Burgers
Location
1199 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver
Size
280 m2
Completed
2024
Owners
Kelly Gordon, Ron Slinger, Jim Romer
Local Collaborators and Artisans
Lost and Found Design, Richard Thacker
Photographer
Wade Comer
The history of Lynn Valley is long and storied. It begins millenia before the first human toes ever indented, however impermanent, into the soft soil. Before the children, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and many more great-grandparents of the trees we see standing today had their roots in the soil. Indeed, Lynn Valley and its inhabitants have been many things, seen many sights. It was a vast forest, a magnificent producer of cedar shakes, a thinned out ghost of its former self, and back to a forest again. It is a place of refuge, for all beings both big and small. We love to see the sun dance between the trees, playing hide and go seek with its never-ending shadow. We love to feel its moist embrace, like a warm kiss from a furry friend. We aim to pay homage to this beautiful landscape, from whom we have borrowed so much, in the architecture of this space.
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The mural wrapping around the room is constructed from over 100 historical and current photographs of Lynn Valley, weaving from the past to the present as you move deeper into the space. The wooden slats are enlarged representations of what gave Shaketown its original name: the cedar shake. And the rope a shrunken version of what makes Lynn Valley famous today: the suspension bridge. Finally, the dioramas, hidden throughout the room, are reminders that whilst a forest may be vast, there is life going on around you in a variety of different scales. Lynn Valley is our home. And with that, the references within this room are reminders of why we are here, and to whom we owe so much.
