(Host) What qualifies as the best examples of excellent new architecture in Vermont? Commentator and architecture buff Donald Kreis* has been thinking about the latest crop of candidates.(Kreis) Every winter, I find myself eagerly awaiting news of what was this past year's best new architecture in Vermont. And this year, like most years, I ended up crying in my beer.
The Vermont chapter of the American Institute of Architects bestowed only one honor award for 2012 - on something created by the design-build firm in
James Westphalen
Let's face it - Cantilever House is stunning, especially if you share my enthusiasm for contrast over conformity. The shapes are rectangular, the colors are black and grey, the materials are glass and metal and finely cured concrete. And as for the second floor that does indeed extend considerably beyond the first floor - well, everyone who has ever climbed a tree and explored one of its limbs knows that cantilevers are cool.
