ARCHITECT JOHN Kay lives in
Surrey and specializes in designing
houses. But it would take a drive
through the hills of West Van-
couver to view most of Kay's cre-
ations.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

He has built 27 houses in West
Vancouver and says he enjoys the
challenge of designing houses
along the cliffs and rugged terrain
of West Vancouver.

**That’s where most of my
clients are. Frank Lloyd Wright
once said that the job should find
the man,” says Kay.

He adds that the environment is
a very important factor for him
when designing houses.

“*I’ve always tried to incor-
porate the landscape into the
building. Architecture is like the
tides of the sea, it floats in and it
floats out,” says Kay.

“*B.C. consists of mountains,

44... the
Subconscious

does a lot of
the work. 99

— John Kay

water, trees and rocks. What ar-
chitects have to do is work with a
huge empty wilderness. | do not
agree with using stucco. Virtually
all of my houses are wood.”

Kay recalls one house in par-
ticular he designed.

**There were huge Douglas firs
on the property, and there was an
eagle’s nest at the top of one of
the trees. I designed the house in

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

ARCHITECT JOHN Kay spent 1,000 hours creating this ‘hanging gardens” house in West Vancouver. Kay does most of his work in

West Vancouver.

such a way where you would open
a sliding glass door to the master
bedroom, walk along a_ short
bridge ontc the top of a huge
wooden pillar.

“The pillar was the Douglas fir
and the top of the pillar was the
eagie’s nest.’”

Kay has: been designing houses
for the past 46 years and says he
can now design a house “in my
head.”’

“I'm quite convinced that the
subconscious does a lot of the
work.’”

Final concerts of the year this week

HANDSWORTH SECOND-
ARY’S award-winning music
groups are holding their final
concert of the school year next
week.

The May Revue concerts will be
held Tuesday, May 26, and Wed-
nesday, May 27, and feature the
school’s junior and senior jazz
bands plus the senior jazz combo
and concert band, which recently

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