paths

You enter the home across a spherical stone path evoking crossing a river on lily pads.

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Roof extension with garden

Flanked by a horseshoe-shaped corridor, the open-air courtyard features dramatic views of Mount Blackmore to the south. In the summer, the mature vegetation shades the glass, and in the winter, the corridor is heated as the courtyard fills with snow.

Architect Tom Kundig set the living/dining room in a pavilion that opens to the garden on three sides. “This house is in a highly developed neighborhood, yet when you walk in, you forget that,” he says. “Indoors and outdoors aren’t two separate things.”

Antonin Yuji Maeno and Kelsea Crawford founded Cutwork to "rethink spaces to make them more elastic in their usage,

A 100-year-old oak shades the front of the house, which is clad in weathering yellow cedar.

A gravel trail winds through greenery into the entryway of the home, reinforcing the parklike nature of the site.

becomes this wood cocoon with ambient light coming through the clear wall panel. You don’t need to even turn on a light.”

In place of a lawn, Inge Jabra Landscapes specified pavers surrounded by creeping thyme, which can be walked on without being destroyed.