All-Clad: 7 Innovative Exteriors
From wood to steel to glass to cement boards, we give you the inside track on the materials and techniques needed to make your facade sing.
Labics took their design cues from the original structure’s history and function: The form of the industrial-looking double chimney, for example, was derived from an old stack placed on an adjacent farm. For the water feature, at right, a moat-like trench surrounding the house was dug to reduce humidity in the foundation.
Dunbar and Astrakhan's low-cost, high-impact tour de force is a storefront facade constructed from salvaged double-insulated window glass panels arranged in a shingle pattern.
Architect Lorcan O’Herlihy created a residence for himself and his wife, Cornelia, in Venice, California.
The woven wire steel mesh presents a semi-transparent sheath to the interiors.
A family of cost-conscious Hamburgers converted a kitschy turn-of-the-century villa into a high-design home with a strict budget in place. To unite the quaint masonry of the original villa with the squat, ugly add-on built flush against it, the architects decided to paint the old-fashioned facade graphite gray and then covered the box next door in plain, light-colored larch. Photo by Mark Seelen.
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