Syncline ˈ(ˈsin-ˌklīn): a fold in stratified rock with younger layers closer to the center of the structure. The home sits on the lone syncline that runs through peninsular Halifax.
Located in the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Syncline was designed for California-based Geoff and his husband, Nova Scotia-based James – the quiet, masculine modern form sits adjacent to Point Pleasant Park and overlooks the North-West Arm.
Webster Terrace was a distinguished modern movement house built in three stages. It had an open plan living/dining/kitchen with a distinctive sloped ceiling extending into a mono slope cantilevered roof.
The Ghost Laboratory is sited at the LaHave River estuary on Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast, where Samuel de Champlain made his first landfall in the new world in 1604. This landscape was re-cleared from forest by the architect over the past 25 years, revealing its historic ruins and its 400 years of agrarian history.
Consultant: Columbia University; University of Minnesota; Wendell Burnette Architects; Juhani Pallasmaa Architects; Marlon Blackwell Architect; University of Washington; Lake/Flato Architects; Peter Buchanan(author); The Miller Hull Partnership; Deborah Berke and Partners Architects; Architectural Record; Francis Kéré Architecture; Tom Peters (author); Arkitecktur N; Peter Stutchbury Architecture; Ghost students
Engineer: Campbell Comeau Engineering Ltd.
Photography: Manuel Schnell, Brian MacKay-Lyons, James Steeves
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The tragic story of the M.S. St. Louis, a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that the Canadian government turned away in 1939, is represented by The Wheel of Conscience. The wheel is driven by gears – symbolic of the gears of a ship’s engine and the gears of a cynical bureaucracy. On the rim of the large wheel is the description of the tragedy of the M.S. St. Louis. It is surrounded by the map of the world displaying the ship’s route on the cylinder. On the reverse side of the memorial are etched in the metal the names of all the passengers.
This house occupies the crown of a bald drumlin surrounded by the sea on three sides. The project consists of a main house and guesthouse/barn separated by a courtyard defined by two long, low concrete walls.
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