Rogers Arena in bad feng shui spot
Two viaducts apparently bring negative forces into the building
Alongtime Vancouver Canucks fan who says his motivation is to help the team says the organization could do much better if it sought the help of a feng shui master to offset some of the disastrous effects of the location of Rogers Arena.
Tan Nhut is a longtime Vancouver resident of Vietnamese birth who insists there are two huge problems with the location of the building, one being with the main entrance facing south opposite False Creek, and the bigger problem, the two viaducts that bring about forces coming so close to the building they strangle the life out of it.
While this is all a bit much for a Westerner to get his head around, and there won’t be any extensive explanations here, Nhut says he has been trying to bring it to the attention of the Canucks ownership for a while now because he feels the two problems are so significant that the team will never have ultimate success unless there are remedial steps taken to offset the forces at work.
Large roads, particularly oneway streets, evidently aim forces at a building, which is why feng shui followers will not purchase a house if it stands directly at the end of a long street.
The original GM Place was built between the two viaducts because the land was inexpensive and former owner Arthur Griffiths was able to get zoning expedited. Nhut says the issue with the viaducts is so obvious it may deter some Asian fans from even attending.
With respect to the southern facing main entrance off the water, apparently the building of the second Aquilini tower will help because it will be a blocking force between the Rogers Arena and False Creek, so there is the mainstay of one of the biggest issues already fixed as soon as the huge hole in the ground is filled with a building. And of course there has been talk about the removal of the viaducts, which would solve the other problem.
Otherwise, the fix isn’t simple, according to Nhut. It would involve erecting large Bagua Mirrors on the side of the building to deflect away these energy forces.
“It would be best if you had a huge mirror all around the building, but that’s not practical so you would probably need at least four on all corners of the building at about the level of the viaducts,” says Nhut. “But some advice of experts in the field would likely be able to help.”
Sherman Tai, a feng shui expert who advises The Province on such matters from time to time, was unavailable Thursday, but Nhut was not the first person to have voiced these concerns.
He was the only one to push hard enough to be heard.
To be sure, many corporations have taken advice such as this seriously. The owners of the MGM Grand, for instance, used to have the main entrance to their hotelcasino in Las Vegas as a giant Lion’s head.
When told nobody attentive to feng shui would go into such a building for the obvious symbol of being consumed by the animal in a metaphysical sense, they changed the entrance. Coca-Cola in Atlanta, the Body Shop and the L.A. Zoo are other companies that have also consulted experts on the matter, and in a city where so many Asians reside, it might be something for the Canucks to at least consider.
There are of course a myriad of questions that flow from such an idea as this. Does the United Center in Chicago have any of these issues? Evidently not. What made the old Montreal Forum so compatible? Why aren’t visiting teams affected in the same way as a home team, whatever those affects might be, thereby cancelling out any positive or negative forces?
And many, many more that are probably going through your head right now.