Hideaway House
Presenting Hideaway House, a unique chance to possess an entire 52.7 acre private mountain. The journey to this retreat is only accessible through a tucked away road at the base of the mountain. A 700m drive through ancient forests ascends 500 ft. above sea level, to the summit of a vast natural reserve revealing a hidden modernist residence created by Blue Sky Architecture and recently remastered by Measured Architecture. Upon arrival, the home’s interlocking wooden volumes emerge between sandstone ridges creating a striking figure against a cinematic Gulf Island backdrop. Inside, the house blends the modern and the organic, with a serene white interior setting a quiet stage for a swooping glulam structure. Exuding both grandeur and intimacy, this sanctuary offers panoramic views over international waters and secret glimpses of the immediate grounds. Just 20 minutes by float plane from Vancouver, this tranquil hideaway stands ready for its next custodian.
630 Tinker Rd
Mayne Island, BC
Neighbourhood
Mayne Island
Designer
Measured Architecture
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Blue Sky Architecture
Designed and Built
1993/2021
Price
$3,998,000
Specification
Organic and Free-Form Architecture
Program
West Coast Modern
Floors
2 Levels
Cottage Floors
1 Level
Rooms
3 Bed 2.5 Bath
Cottage Rooms
1 Bed 1 Bath
Building
2,829 sqft
Lot
52.7 acre
Cottage Building
661 sqft
“I first saw this house in October twilight, the oblique glass end like a boat’s prow in the golden light. Later, in darkness, the same prow provided other delights... Spectacular in every sense.”
– Trevor Boddy, Picturesque, Tectonic, Romantic: Helliwell + Smith, Blue Sky Architecture, 1999
Featured In
“Dream Home: A Mayne Island Getaway.”
– BC Living, Sep 3, 2023
“After a recent renovation, the property has hit its peak potential with elevated interiors and panoramic views.”
– Dwell, Aug 2, 2023
“A ‘pinch me’ moment on Mayne Island”
– The Globe & Mail, July 6, 2023
“A Renovated Haven in Art and Nature”
– THE PLAN, issue 146, May 2023
“The result is a triumph of ingenuity, a case of creation through removal with an entirely new abode emerging out of radically different origins… The before and afters are incredible.”
– Western Living, August 2022
“The curving roof profile is derived from a close analysis of the sectional profile of the brow of the hill, and is constructed of pre-manufactured glulam beams. The structural rhythm creates an order in the plan that is otherwise organically derived from responses to the site conditions of trees and rock ridges.”
– Bo Helliwell, Picturesque, Tectonic, Romantic: Helliwell + Smith, Blue Sky Architecture, 1999
Measured Architecture
"Architects of the Year"
– Western Living, 2022
Established in 2007, Measured Architecture is a Vancouver-based studio practice focused on modern design, interiors and landscapes. Measured Architecture practices situational modernism — a subject-based, humanist approach that considers a project through the aspirations of a client, the opportunities of a site and the constraints of a municipality, budget and schedule.
Clinton Cuddington is the founder and co-principal of Measured Architecture. Prior to forming Measured in 2007 Clinton had amassed an impressive public architecture pedigree, including nine years as an architect for Bing Thom Architects in Vancouver working on commissions that included the redevelopment and expansion of the Arena Stage Theatre in Washington, DC, and the Surrey Campus of Simon Fraser University. Clinton was educated at the University of Manitoba (B. Environmental Studies 1992) and the University of British Columbia (M. Arch 1997). Clinton is a member of both the RAIC and AIBC, and is on the City of Vancouver’s First Shaughnessy District Advisory Panel, on the City of Vancouver Urban Design Panel, as well as on the Board of Directors as President at the Arthur Erickson Foundation.
Measured Architecture is the recipient of numerous awards including the AIBC Awards, and has been featured in Dwell, Architiser, Arch Daily, the Globe & Mail, Western Living and the 2018 Venice Biennale.
measured.ca
Blue Sky Architecture
Inheritors and Interpreters of the Organic Tradition of Modernism
Blue Sky Architecture is an award-winning firm, founded by Bo Helliwell and Kim Smith on Hornby Island in 1975 and now located in West Vancouver.
Blue Sky was built with an optimism embodying an emotional relationship between people, structure, materials and nature. There is an unashamed romanticism to Blue Sky’s approach to design that bonds buildings to their site. Blue Sky is consistently exploring and developing a design approach that is unique, humane and attuned to its environment.
There is a singular, sinuous line of fine houses shaped by Helliwell and Smith through some of North America’s most dramatic landscapes. Like a woodwind solo drifting through a mountain valley, these houses play a continuous melody marked by theme and variation in cedar, stone and timber beam. The continuities of texture, layout and outlook between these houses are quickly evident, but more interesting are their differences, the dappled reflections, the unexpected echoes and the layers of architectural sound drifting through the trees.
Blue Sky was born out of the ferment of the late 60s and early 70s. Its work so far has shown how the principles of Arts and Crafts Modernism can be brought to houses on the West Coast. Helliwell and Smith are inheritors and interpreters of the Organic tradition of Modernism. Blue Sky’s volumes certainly flow into each other, but they form an unconnected tissue of internal and external places, simultaneously specific and capable of many interpretations.
blueskyarchitecture.com
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