Coupland goes for the gold

In Vancouver, a city with one of the highest housing costs in North America, real estate developers have become the new patrons of public art. The Golden Tree, a monumental sculpture by Douglas Coupland, recently installed in the plaza of Intracorps new James Cheng-designed tower MC2, is a zeitgeisty exploration of real estate as a new gold rush. This 43 ft high, gold-finished mirror image replica of the beloved 800-year-old hollow treea Western Red Cedar stump in Vancouvers Stanley Parkis a fit