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At the centre of the Lantern House, a family home in a leafy Vancouver neighbourhood, is a massive void, a cubic well adorned in cedar slats. This aperture showers direct light onto the rough concrete and oak millwork of the living room below, and it sends filtered light through the slats and into the upper-floor bedrooms. The rest of the house is designed around classical principles: economy of form, Palladian symmetry, and moments of interior compression that dramatically give way to expansive — and, indeed, light-filled — atria.

Team: Michael Leckie, James Eidse, Emily Dovbniak, Irena Jenei, Holden Korbin, Ian Lee, Andrea Zittlau, Joe MacMullin, Jesse Payne, Sebastian Guerrero, Matthew Yip, Ivan Ngan, Cory Legge, Seth Mennie

Award of Merit: Houses
Lantern House

At the centre of the Lantern House, a family home in a leafy Vancouver neighbourhood, is a massive void, a cubic well adorned in cedar slats.

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