Howard House
In the small, craggy fishing villages along Nova Scotia’s remote southeastern coast, local fishermen have been recycling for years. Transforming old cargo containers into boatsheds, they’ve created a landscape of weathered metal boxes that plainly reflect
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Waterside
howard house
LOCATION
West Pennant, Nova Scotia, Canada
ARCHITECTURALFIRM
DESIGNER
YEAR
Brian MacKay-Lyons Architects
Brian MacKay-Lyons
1999
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