Carmichael House, 1957

• Constructed 1957
• Location West Vancouver, BC
• Designer
  Ron Thom (Thompson, Berwick & Pratt)
• Use Dwelling
• Recognition
  Massey Medal for Architecture (1961)
  West Vancouver Community Heritage Register

Built in 1957 for Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Carmichael, the Carmichael House is one of a collection of homes designed by Ron Thom utilizing a hexagonal planning approach, a departure from the usual rectilinear plan. This unique approach was pioneered in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hanna House (1936) in Stanford, California; Thom brilliantly harnessed this strategy as an effective way to design homes on West Vancouver’s famously irregular topography. Not only has the Carmichael House been sensitively updated by its current owners, but it is one of Thom’s few remaining 30-60 houses in the region.