Step Inside the Cosmic House, a London Home Designed to Reflect the Universe

While the home is at ease in its Holland Park location, it represents a dramatic remodeling of the original home, most clearly from the side and rear. The garden facade features a representation of the family of four—Charles, Maggie, and their two children—through the repeated "Jencksiana" motif around windows and terraces. The modernist grid appears in the window mullions and transoms while between them a stuccoed arch features the ghost of an over-scaled keystone—a mannerist joke on the nature of contemporary architecture and the abandonment of traditional load-bearing responsibilities.