The family loves to cook and opted for a statement piece as the kitchen island made of volcanic stone with burners that emerge directly from the surface.
"Attracted to the Lantern House for its tranquility and the healing properties of its designs, the previous owners invited the Dalai Lama, who blessed the home during his 2014 visit to Vancouver,
Thanks to a 2000 renovation led by Hollingsworth's son, Russell, the home is twice the size of other Neoteric homes, offering 3,865 square feet of living space across two levels.
"With the Lantern House, Hollingsworth tapped into Japanese wabi-sabi principles that seek to eliminate the inessential and find beauty in unembellished, humble materials,
A strong believer that homes should harmoniously merge with their natural surroundings ("of it, not on it"), Fred Hollingsworth aimed to articulate such vision with his Neoteric collection of homes. This includes the Lantern House, which appears to rise from the North Vancouver slopes.
The Lantern House is one of the only residences in Canada to have been personally blessed by the Dalai Lama.
The covered loggia in the lush backyard provides plenty of space for outdoor entertaining.
Sliding glass doors and clerestory windows allow the main living areas to be drenched with natural light. Black Venetian Plaster walls in the kitchen pop against the stark white ceilings.
Built in 2022, the home features a Cypress and Cedar exterior and flat-lined roof, inspired by modern Balinese architecture.
Customers are free to customize their prefab, as long as it fits within the company's structural grid.
Just outside the studio, Ground Studio Landscape Architecture created a natural courtyard with a meadow and an edgeless pool that mimics a pond.
Sharon and Mike Matas use the studio to design, create, and research.
One of the concrete supports rises from a steep hillside and stands among surrounding trees.
The studio cantilevers over a steep hillside and provides a tree house effect.
The remote studio/office that Robert Swatt of Swatt Miers Architects designed for a Healdsburg, California, property is marked by glass walls that provide the feeling of working in nature.
A ceiling and flooring made from Western Red Cedar pay tribute to the trees of the forested landscape.
Extra-wide concrete pillars help to support the studio at its core.
The kitchen underwent the most dramatic change, being relocated to the back of the house adjacent to the living room. White Oak floors and casework and new Kolbe windows warm up the space. The pendant light is from Design Within Reach, and the bar stools are custom from Sean Woolsey.
The project, known as the Boulder Bridge House, is just down the hillside from Bruce and Connie's existing house.
Forty-seven years ago, Peter and Turkey Stremmel opened Stremmel Gallery, one of the first fine-art showplaces in Reno. They went on to exhibit work there by such luminaries as Wolf Kahn, Charles Arnoldi, and Phyllis Shafer. The same architect who designed the gallery, Mark Mack, designed their home, a cluster of colorful cubes in the mountains above the city.
Inside, an MDO-and-metal dresser, designed by the architects and built by Custom Manufacturing and Tutto Ferro, doubles as a headboard. Perched atop it is a bust by Manuel Neri. The lounge and ottoman are TK.
A cutaway in the standing-seam zinc roof creates an outdoor area for the guest suite. The chairs are from Teak Warehouse.
Michael Doherty Construction completed the 5,900-square-foot house in 2017. Along with landscape designer Delphine Huetz, architects Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger envisioned a series of giant earthen berms for the yard. A cluster of deer grass, tall switch grass, blue grama grass, and heatwave hyssop grows near the garage.
Contrasting materials, like blackened steel, silvery zinc, and white sheetrock, converge at odd angles.
Sticking out above the kitchen, the triangular library showcases a sculpture by Stephen De Staebler.
When the blinds are up, the owners can take in the Old Southwest neighborhood from their bed, a custom design.
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