Sent every Tuesday and containing a selection of the most important news highlights. Plus occasional updates on Dezeen’s services and breaking news. Sent every Thursday and featuring a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories. Our most popular newsletter, formerly known as Dezeen Weekly. General contractor: (MRB Contracting) Mike Burns, Alex MacDormand The video is by ThreeSixFive Media.Īrchitecture: (Omar Gandhi Architect) Omar Gandhi (Principal), Jeff Shaw (Associate, Project Architect), Eric Stotts, Chad Jamieson, Kelly Cameron, Lauren McCrimmon Other projects by Omar Gandhi Architect include a home built for the founder in Halifax and a restaurant in Toronto for celebrity chef Matty Matheson. The bedrooms have views of the waterĪ preexisting dock was utilised to connect the new building to the water. From here, the landscape steps down with a series of retaining walls to the pool below. The studio chose a muted colour palette resembling the exterior for the house's interiors, with limestone and cedar finishes repeated throughout.Ī terrace wraps around the common spaces and a sunken conversation pit was placed over the cantilevered red-cedar window box on one end. Read: Omar Gandhi creates accessible viewpoint at Peggy's Cove lighthouse In the primary living room, double-height floor-to-ceiling windows let in the light and a large stone-clad fireplace decorates the centre of the room.īehind the fireplace are a dining room and kitchen, which lead to the sixth bedroom. The fireplace is clad in light stoneĪ central spiral staircase connects the two floors and was made of solid wood crafted with a 5-axis machining, a process that uses computer numerical control (CNC) to cut the wood from five angles at once. The home's top-floor entrance leads into a glass-lined entryway that Gandhi described as a "compression zone", where a glass balcony overlooks the living areas.įive bedrooms are all accessible from this level, two of which have red cedar-clad window boxes that hold terraces. A wood spiral staircase leads from the entry mezzanine to the living area "A long and bent form allowed for unique views from each of the house's main spaces," said Gandhi. The main structure has two storeys that follow the steep slope of the site. An adjacent pool house has a low, sleek envelope and water-facing, operable window wall.Ĭlad in the same red cedar as the shadow boxes, the pool house includes a sauna and wood-burning stove. Indiana limestone clads the base of the home while board-form concrete walls twist through the landscaping, leading to a hot tub and a pool. "These lenses provide unique views of both the foreground and distant landscape from critical social zones of the house." The home has cantilevered shadowboxes
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