Lily Pad is a modern retreat located in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, designed in 2020 by Saunders Architecture.

Description
The vernacular architecture of Muskoka has a distinctive quality of its own. This resort region, around two hours to the north of Toronto, is well known for its picturesque lakes and rivers, bordered by boathouses and cottages that make the most of the surroundings with their porches, decks and terraces. Todd Saunders? Lily Pad house, on the edge of Ontario?s Lake Rosseau, offers a 21st Century reinterpretation of Muskoka vernacular fused with a range of Modernist and contemporary influences drawn from North America and Scandinavia.
The project was commissioned by a businessman and his wife, who are based in the city but have enjoyed spending time at an island summer cottage in Muskoka for around thirty years. They found a sixteen acre site on the edge of Lake
Rosseau, which connects with Lake Muskoka and Lake Joseph through a network of waterways, and began thinking about building something for themselves that would integrate with the setting but also be decidedly modern.
The couple were already thinking about the project when they took a trip to the Fogo Inn in Newfoundland, designed by Saunders. Their time on Fogo Island,

getting to know the architect?s work first hand, convinced them that they should get in touch with Saunders. Saunders designed a five-bedroom house, along with

a separate guest house as well as a boathouse on the ...