Before & After: She Cloaked Her 1970s Brick Home in a Concrete-and-Metal “Skin”

A retiree transformed her suburban residence by adding a surprisingly airy brutalist extension at the front.

There’s a secret hiding behind this Brisbane, Australia, home’s sharp, brutalist façade: its original brick bungalow form is largely intact.

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