West Coast Modern presents the rare opportunity to experience a collectible work of art.
Landed on a mountainside in West Vancouver, the Starship House is far beyond one of British Columbia’s finest modern houses. It is an example of the magic that results when a client trusts and honours the architect’s vision — and of equal importance, the beginning of Vancouver becoming a world-class city destined for a bright future.
In 1967, Vancouver was brimming with optimistic energy. Tasked with completing a daring example of modernist architecture, Arthur Erickson effectively responded with a house in the form of a sculptural, intergalactic spacecraft. Much like a mothership poised for take-off, the machine-like, geometric design is equally organic. The warmth of continuous, diagonal wood and boundless, natural light respond to the sloping north shore mountains — suggesting a structure that has forever been part of the land (or that fell quietly to earth).
The Starship House is a striking vision for the future that catapulted Erickson’s career and paved the way for his audacious body of international work.
This is your rare opportunity to experience this singular architectural masterpiece in person, where few earthlings have before.
