Akb Architects creates deliberate tension between past and present at Ontario house

Canadian studio Akb Architects has designed a white, hilltop house that "dissolves into the snow" in Mono, Ontario, acknowledging the vernacular architecture while implementing contemporary tactics.

Known as Timbertop House, the 2650-square-foot (245-square metre), gabled home sits on an elevated clearing on a 200-acre property owned by a single family for multiple generations.

Akb Architects has completed a hilltop house in Ontario

The land, affectionately called the Rolling Hills of Old Ontario...