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May 24, 2011 · Architects: Brian MacKay-Lyons Urban Design. Photographs: James Steeves. Text description provided by the architects. The modest house is a 12 foot wide, 110 foot long wall playing a...
- James Steeves
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- Howard House / Brian MacKay-Lyons Urban Design
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- James Steeves
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 the west.
On the edge of one such village, wedged in among the boulders of a hook-shaped peninsula that reaches into the sea, stands Brian MacKay-Lyons's Howard House.
The house exploits a passive environmental approach to heating and ventilation. It is an essay on the relationship between form and lifestyle which clearly demonstrates that a 12’ wide wall in the landscape can provide the spatial and functional requirements of modern living.
Image 6 of 6 from gallery of Howard House / Brian MacKay-Lyons Urban Design. Photograph by James Steeves.
Brian Gerald MacKay-Lyons CM [2] (born 26 August 1954 [3]) is a Canadian architect best known for his designs for houses on the coast of his native Nova Scotia, and his use of Atlantic Canadian vernacular materials and construction techniques.
A winner of multiple Governor General’s Medals in Architecture, Brian MacKay-Lyons has achieved national and international prominence for designs that transmute vernacular forms and traditions into striking but livable contemporary buildings.
