
The rate at which globalization advances may have accustomed us to the contrary, but architecture requires time: time to be conceived, time to be built, time to be inhabited. Normally these times follow one another, consecutively, but sometimes they overlap, creatively, and end up confused. A case is Point William, a dwelling on the Canadian Shield in Labrador, surrounded by woods and water, which has been in the making and remaking thanks to a project of the local office Shim-Sutcliffe. Put together by Kenneth Frampton and Michael Webb and illustrated with photos by Ed Burtynsky, this book examines the different times of a house that wants to remain a work in progress.