With a pool and barbecue deck nearby, this is one backyard that wants you to stay awhile. And where better to stay than beneath the almost-beating wings of a cedar butterfly! Ottawa architect, Christopher Simmonds, designed a gridwork of beams, rafters, and purlins that’s held up by sections of powdercoated steel tubing. The antennae are made from curved stainless-steel bars. The patient staff of RND brought the design to reality.

(Featured in Fine Homebuilding Magazine, May 2005, No. 170, Back Cover)