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On the Edge

Serious architecture begins with serious aspirations. And when the London practice Gort Scott took on a house in Whistler, British Columbia, it came with the loftiest of goals. “This is not a typical resort residence project,” the client wrote in a vision statement to the designers. “It is an architectural expression of self.”

Yet the client also wanted a house that would harmonize with its context, a dramatic ridge above Alta Lake in B.C.’s Coast Mountains. Gort

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