The Linns’ home, which Andrew Linn and Jack Becker completed for Andrew and his wife last year, declares its commitment to natural materials with a patchwork of wood products on its exterior. The sassafras cladding the lower portion of the house’s east face peels away from the building to become a freestanding fence enclosing a small, private outdoor space in the middle of the alley.
The emphasis on wood finishes continues inside, where the skylit atrium bifurcates the house. On the second floor, the primary bedroom and a pair of smaller bedrooms straddle the stairwell.
The floors were covered with stone slabs slate with generous dimensions and wooden floors.
“I wanted to go upstairs to a place that was completely clean, serene, and quiet,” says Paula of the library, for which the architects created an open steel bookcase.
All along the hallway, additional Shoji screens offer multiple options to enclose several bedrooms to the left, as well as control sunlight entering the south-facing windows. The home's original owners added a bed of granite rocks and log rounds in place of traditional flooring.
A large deck off of the principal suite provides a space to relax overlooking the pool.
The open plan is visually broken up by the use of shoji screens and beams.
Outside, David wanted a bit more curb appeal and jumped at Nichols’s suggestion to cover part of the addition in roof tiles. “It’s supposed to be roofing tile, but I didn’t see why you couldn’t use it for a facade,” Nichols says.
A game room features a 1960s Brunswick Gold Crown pool table with championship purple felt.
At 55 Monterrey, historic details like the bay window seen here are rolled into a space that feels very modern.
When Pablo Pérez Palacios’ Mexico City–based architecture firm PPAA was tasked with building an apartment tower to meet La Colonia Roma's need for additional housing, he faced a problem familiar to developers in historic neighborhoods everywhere. The site was occupied by a dilapidated home that dates to 1925, and local laws required that the facade and part of the structure be maintained. PPAA’s innovative approach was to cut the original three-story home in half, preserving enough of the building to front the street and hold two apartments replete with classic Victorian details like high ceilings and restored millwork. In the back of the lot, they designed a sleek eight-story apartment tower that would hold an additional nine apartments, for a total of 11 units. Not bad for a site that was previously an uninhabited single-family house.
A pair of Molded Plywood lounge chairs by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller sit opposite a BoConcept coffee table and a sofa of Paul’s design. For his father’s book collection, Paul created a library around the double-height staircase.
The black finish on the exterior facades is a modern interpretation of Corey, the artisan stucco used in traditional Mexican Cities.
A multilevel design means that the outside is never far away in CBC House.
A colored compound mixed into the cement gives the home a yellow color that lends a much warmer feeling than gray concrete.
The lush garden is a presence throughout the house.
An interior courty
An interior courtyard.
Native plants dominate the garden setting, planned from the outset as an essential element of the living space.
With the floor-to-ceiling glass doors wide open, the barrier between inside and out disappears.
The laminated pine pavilion constitutes PPAA's first use of wood in a more traditional column and beam construction.
Mexico City's privileged climate allows for outdoor relaxing all year round.
The two structures are connected by an expansive terrace with a lap pool and fire pit.
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