A prominent but decades-old Vancouver rental building will be getting a facelift from a world renowned author and artist, after the City of Vancouver approved a new public art work by Vancouver’s Douglas Coupland.

According to a statement Thursday, the city’s approval means Coupland will be using The Berkeley building as a canvas for a painting commissioned by the building’s original owner Reliance Properties.

The edifice of mostly rental apartments has been a landmark at the corner of Denman and Davie streets for 60 years and is undergoing some major upgrades to