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An icon of Vancouver architecture perched above Arbutus Ridge.

You hear it before you understand it — the silence. Standing in the living room for the first time, the city spread wide beneath you, mountains sharp against the sky, and somehow all of it held in perfect quiet. The concrete absorbs sound. The glass invites the world in without letting any of it intrude. This is what great architecture does. It doesn't shout. It breathes.

Juli Hodgson designed an interior that feels like it has always been here — warm where it should be warm, restrained where it should be restrained, and alive with light that shifts through every room as the day turns. The materials tell you everything. Marble that glows. White oak that softens your step. Raw concrete that reminds you something powerful is holding all of this together.

From the street, you'd walk right past it. Behind the hedging and the cedar, there's no hint of what waits inside — 4,812 sq ft of living space on a generous lot that fans open toward the view, three levels of poured concrete and glass, and a private outdoor world with a heated pool, fire, and garden that feels more like a resort on the coast of Japan than a family home in Vancouver.

The structure is architect Sean Best's — poured concrete slab, double concrete walls, clear yellow cedar cladding, and floor-to-ceiling Schüco windows with cantilevered glass corners that let the view wrap around you rather than simply sit in front of you. A sculptural floating staircase in blackened steel, Starphire glass, and solid white oak connects all three levels, its open risers framing an integrated 500-bottle wine collection set against raw concrete below. It is one of those details that makes you stop on the stairs, glass in hand, and just look.

The main floor is where the home earns its reputation. The living and dining rooms face the panorama through unbroken glass, anchored by a full-slab marble fireplace with built-in bookshelves and a backlit glass bar just behind. You can seat twelve at the dining table with the mountains as your backdrop, and it never feels forced — the room was made for it. The kitchen is serious and beautiful — marble countertops, a full marble wall, Gaggenau cooktop and wall oven, Miele dishwasher, Sub-Zero drawer fridges and wine storage — arranged around a generous island that seats four. This is a room designed for someone who actually cooks, surrounded by people they love, with the city glowing in the distance.

Upstairs belongs entirely to private life, and it is where the home becomes something personal. The primary suite takes the best position in the house — floor-to-ceiling glass on two walls, a marble-surround fireplace, and a private balcony where the city stretches out below you at sunset. The ensuite is clad in slab Calacatta Oro marble, with a freestanding soaking tub placed at a picture window that frames the mountains. You will linger here longer than you planned. Every single morning. A second bedroom with ensuite, a den, and a light-filled flex room with skylight complete the floor — space for family to spread out without ever feeling far apart.

The lower level is where the home surprises you. A family room stretching over thirty feet flows through full-height sliding glass walls onto a private courtyard that feels like its own world — a heated lap pool along the edge, a hot tub, a fire pit terrace set within a Japanese-inspired gravel garden with sculpted pines, and a detached poolside studio currently used as a gym. On a summer evening, with the pool lit and the fire going and the mountains fading to silhouette, you will not believe you are in the middle of a city. Two additional bedrooms with ensuites, a home office with a built-in marble desk overlooking the hedged front garden, full laundry, and the wine cellar complete this level. It is the kind of floor that teenagers never want to leave — and that's by design.

Behind all of it, the things you don't see but will feel every day: radiant in-floor heating served by three independent heat pumps, water filtration, 400-amp electrical service, EV charging in the two-car garage, Ubiquiti whole-home Wi-Fi, integrated speakers throughout, and automated lighting and blinds. The engineering is as considered as the design — quiet, invisible, and built to outlast everything around it.

This is not a home that asks you to admire it from a distance. It is a home that asks you to sit down, pour a glass, and stay.

One of the city's most remarkable residences — come experience it.

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