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Solar Inspiration

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A husband-and-wife architect team proves a house can be good for the environment—and look great too.

Sydney LeBlanc
In Scarpa and Brook' own house, they’ve mounted luminous solar panels in a rusted-steel-beam grid to form a modernist canopy that frames the façade. This imaginative “solar umbrella” hides the household power plant in plain sight, part of an artful composition that includes a hanging screen tied with bristles of industrial brooms.

Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley

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