Architect: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

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Hill House, Kingsburg-Nova Scotia, Canada, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Hill House

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 on a north/south axis, while the […]

Canadian Chancery and Official Residence, Dhaka, Bangladesh, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Canadian Chancery and Official Residence

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 hot climate with monsoon rains that […]

Howard House, Halifax, Canada, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Howard House

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. An absolute, horizontal datum […]