✕The Shingle Style keeps coming back. His book The Shingle Style and the Stick Style paid homage to those such as Henry Hobson Richardson, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright, who explored the textures of the wood shingle, as well as others who experimented with the verticality and flatness of board-and-batten construction (aka the Stick Style). Below is a profile of Hilltop House by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the first project in our special In Focus series on contemporary shingled cottages. It is one of several structures that the Halifax, Nova Scotia, firm of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects (MLSA) built for a client who commissioned this cottage to celebrate his 90th birthday on the spot where he had been betrothed many years before. Accordingly, the architects inserted two intricately detailed skylights in the New Brunswick pavilion to illuminate its volumetric one-story interior.