This Peruvian Home Puts a Twist on the Traditional Tudor
The Lima residence meets local style mandates by elevating historic forms to a whole new level.
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The idea of serving prison time isn’t usually on an architect’s mind. But when César Becerra, a partner at 51-1 Arquitectos, in Lima, Peru, describes the constraints his firm encountered while designing a house in the city’s San Isidro district, one of the first things he says is, "If we’d harmed any of the property’s four olive trees, we could have gone to jail!"
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Sarah Amelar
While reporting on Hadley and Peter Arnold's Canyon House, writer and architect Sarah Amelar got to rub shoulders–or rather wings and fins–with the family's menagerie: three dogs, a cat, two rabbits, two birds and a fish.
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