If you’re in the market for a replica log cabin or a Georgian Colonial on a block of Georgian Colonials, the 04-SU House by McLeod Bovell Modern Houses is not for you. But if you’re house hunting – and have the financial wherewithal – for a truly one-of-a-kind, “build it and burn the blueprints” home, this is the place to start. In fact, every home in the McLeod Bovell catalog would fit your needs perfectly.
Except there is no catalog.
“We enter each project without an agenda,” the company promises in promotional materials. Each home fits. It fits the homeowners’ needs and passions and lifestyle, and it fits into the land wherein it’s nestled.
Take the 04-SU House, situated on a steep, challenging 16,000-square-foot site in West Vancouver, British Columbia. The flat-edged contemporary lines of the 7,000-square-foot estate create soaring spaces with walls of windows and dramatic views at the crystal-blue waters of the outer harbor that seems to sit right outside the door. As if the stunning water view isn’t enough, there’s also a suspended plunge pool amidst a courtyard layout some 40 feet off the ground.
Constructed in simple lines of decorative concrete, Accoya wood siding and Resista siding, all of the color of its environment, the property seems to have always inhabited its space – and as if it always will.