Text description provided by the architects. As its name implies, the Hill House is as much landscape as building. Extruded from its bald drumlin hilltop site, the house is a landform, with its pair of monopitch roofs complementing the curvature of the hill in section. In plan, its midline is […]
Architect: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
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Text description provided by the architects. An embassy is a privileged architectural commission. It offers the opportunity to represent the cultural values of one’s ‘guest’ country and to show respect for the culture of the ‘host’ country. Bangladesh is one of the world’s densest and poorest nations. It has a […]
Howard House
Text description provided by the architects. The Howard House was conceived as a landscape installation for an art historian and his family of four. It is a 12’x110’ wall that distinguishes the cultural landscape of the fishing cove to the east, from the natural landscape of the wild ocean to […]