A North Vancouver Residence and Pool House Connected by Landscape
Two neighboring lots in North Vancouver, British Columbia, were combined into a single ground plane where a main residence, a pool house, and a greenhouse sit not as standalone buildings but as moments within one continuous landscape. Designed by Garret Cord Werner Architects with interiors by HB Design, landscape by Donohoe Living Landscapes, and built by Meister Construction, the project treats architecture, interiors, and terrain as a single continuous material argument – one where no element claims hierarchy over the others and every threshold between inside and outside is deliberately blurred.
Roughly 6,100 square feet of built space splits between a three-level main house at 4,235 square feet and a 1,870-square-foot pool house. No corridor or breezeway connects them – just an alley that the landscape plan turns into a real threshold, not an afterthought. Open the interior gates and a view corridor cuts clean through both properties. The greenhouse and vegetable planters face the public lane, and boulevard plantings spill past the property line. Ryan Donohoe, founder and principal landscape designer at Donohoe Living Landscapes, treated the boundary less like a fence and more like a civic gesture – pushing back against the fortress thinking that drives so much suburban residential work.
The modern farmhouse vocabulary of the architecture – brick, wood slat, and generous glazing – finds its counterpoint in HB Design’s interior material strategy. Shannon Bradner, partner at the studio, led the interior work alongside principal Jennifer Heffel, joining the project at a relatively advanced stage yet delivering a drawing package that the construction team at Meister found remarkably swift and coordinated. The palette reads neutral and earthy, pulled from the tones already present in the surroundings, but what actually sets the interiors apart is how familiar materials get reworked to sidestep their usual associations.
Porcelain tile, quartzite, and carefully chosen woods were selected as much for how they catch and shift light throughout the day as for their tonal fit with the architectural brick. Bradner’s approach layers varied textures against one another – softening the precision of the architecture and pulling warmth into rooms that could easily have gone cold. The sourcing alone took several months, a painstaking calibration of undertone and grain that speaks to the kind of material connoisseurship more commonly associated with high-end hospitality than single-family residential work.
View more information on HB Design’s website.
Photography by Ema Peter.
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