The East Dover House is perched high on a granite hilltop, overlooking a bay and the open sea, on Nova Scotia’s rugged Atlantic coast. The project touches the land lightly, pinned to the granite bedrock.
Tucked away behind the trees, the Chester house features a cedar platform that serves as a porch and or an outdoor room with no walls – an unusual, yet seemingly conventional element that establishes a domestic space within the landscape.
This is the first predesigned neighborhood to be built on Powder Mountain. It consists of 30 cabins which range in size from 1,000 to 2,500 square feet, a communal structure called the ‘Pioneer Cabin’ for the use of the homeowners …
The latest addition, Enough House, provides accommodation for an intern architect to work closely with MacKay-Lyons. The cabin is an essay in economy: space, budget, schedule and aesthetic. It shares the same minimalist ethic as the adjacent, 1830’s schoolhouse.
Mirror Point Cottage is a vacation home for a local fisherman’s daughter, her Dutch minimalist husband, and their two young children, on a lake near Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia.
