Modern Problems
Love superclean design but fear the building inspector? Here's our guide to skirting those modernist missteps.
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After years of drooling over photos of guardrail-free, precipitously cantilevered Chilean beach houses, you have decided to take the plunge and live the dream yourself. But before you fall in love with a pristine design filled with adrenaline-inducing features, you might want to engage your reality sensors and proactively disarm some of the code landmines that have been lovingly placed by your building official.
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Dan Maginn
Dan Maginn is an architect with DRAW Architecture + Urban Design. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and son, in a cantankerous old terra-cotta-colored house.
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