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,

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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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