Fall in Love With This British Architect’s Colorful Weekend Retreat
The English Channel getaway turns its attention to the sea, and takes inspiration from Case Study Houses and postwar brutalism.
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Were it not for its bright red chimney, Toot Rise would blend perfectly into the rural sandstone hill on which it is built. But this stainless-steel cylinder pierces the chestnut-clad house like a sharp new pencil satisfyingly pushed through the lid of a shoebox. It is at once a deliberate signpost and the final flourish of British architect Nick Evans, who designed the two-story structure in East Sussex as a weekend home for himself and his family.
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Iain Aitch
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