“Edgy” can mean a lot of things—“experimental” and “avant-garde” come to mind. The projects in this book, mainly houses, are certainly those. But they are also edgy in the literal sense, as in built on an edge. A deeply sloping site: not a problem. An actual cliff: even better!
Several of the residences featured have been published in the pages of this magazine. Among them, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects’ Cliff House, a simple wood box that teeters off the edge of a bedrock cliff along the Nova Scotian coast. Chilean architecture studio Pezo Von Ellrichshausen’s Loba House, on the other hand, is embedded into its cliffside site midway down that country’s long coastline, its sturdy concrete roof becoming a platform for enjoying stunning ocean views.
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