Architect: Augustus Mino + Robert Fitzpatrick, Location: Chappaqua, New York
In the Dolomite mountains, an angular copper-clad apartment building echoes the topography of its site. Photos by Hertha Hurnaus
Mcllwee showed us some archive photographs of the house, including this original Julius Shulman gem that shows what the interior looked like in the 1970s.
Concrete planters frame the facade—a union of monolithic slabs that offers privacy and compositional integrity to the building. The exterior is a plaster finish over insulation and concrete.
OBI-House by Tetsushi Tominaga, 2013, in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Prefecture