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Pine and gravel sleepers follow the site’s natural slope, weaving through the existing pine trees until reaching the home’s entrance.

To the front, the gardens are laid around a central lawn with a circling driveway which provides parking. There is also a garage for family cars.

Inspired by ancient ruins, Frankie Pappas crafts a green-roofed, brick guesthouse that connects deeply with nature in the South African Bushveld.

“The clients are passionate about nature conservation,’ says architect Ant Vervoot. “They know how every plant, insect, and animal fits into the greater ecosystem—their curiosity about the Bushveld is insatiable and inspiring. It really is an amazing thing to be around them in the bush.”

“We asked Frankie for a home, and they built us a fantasy,” remarked the clients when House of the Tall Chimneys and House of the Big Arch were completed.

The guesthouse is located in a private reserve in the Waterberg, a mountainous region about three hours from Johannesburg.

A brick path leads through the forest to the entrance of House of the Tall Chimneys. “Bricks are a really cost effective way of creating space,” says architect Ant Vervoort. “Over and above that, when used correctly, bricks create complex patterns that I don’t think it’s possible to mimic using other materials.”

The entrance to House of the Big Arch is a nine-meter-tall passage, which creates a high-pressure system that pulls cool air into the kitchen.

The aluminum windows are powder coated in a charcoal color, which is intended to match the shadows created by the forest and help the building further blend in.

The ground-floor living space looks inward to the courtyard and is protected on all other sides by the mass of the building and the blank brick facade.

A side patio leads from the front of the home to the courtyard. The same red bricks used for the facade have been used for the paving to create a seamless fabric that wraps the built form and the site.

The entire home is wrapped in a brick "skin" that extends onto the ground at the front and sides of the home. The entrance is found through a simple void in the facade beside a pond with floating vegetation that hints at the verdant interior.

The mostly blank brick-clad exterior belies the complex geometries that inform the multilevel plan inside. The windows are arranged to frame specific views—including the steeple of the nearby St. Michael’s Church—while retaining privacy from the street.

The firm worked with landscape design company Alchemie to plan the landscaping and create a variety of seating areas throughout the property.

The addition houses a kitchen and family room on the main level, and the master bedroom and roof deck above. Sliding glass doors now allow generous sightlines to the yard, and also convey a lightness to the new architecture that contrasts with the character of the old.

For the new addition, new brick syncs with the old, while blackened steel provides a modern counterpoint to the historic facade.

Large timber-framed glass sliding doors open the kitchen/dining space to the rear courtyard on two sides.

The glazed facade is broken up by classic midcentury lines.

"The wood exterior was selected to make the house blend in with the landscape," Troyer says. "I wanted something that didn’t require painting and aged in a way that would provide a degree of richness. " He envisioned a garden that better surrounded the home, and a more modern exterior. He used ash wood slates of various dimensions from Thermory USA, which were heat-treated for a more sustainable finish.

New exterior facade while modern, nods its head to the historic character of the neighbourhood

In the entrance, a team with the general contracting firm Martha uncovered an abstract mural that Engels painted himself and then plastered over. He also made the geometric door handle. Simon speculates that Engels sourced the marble, found all over the house, from Expo ’58, after the pavilions had been dismantled.

Villa Engels, the home of the esteemed Belgian modernist Lucien Engels (1928–2016), was falling apart when its second owners bought it in 2013. Yet due to its heritage status, any changes they planned would have to be approved by the provincial preservation office. Engels completed the elongated, cantilevered residence in 1958, the same year he finalized the master plan for Expo ’58, the Brussels World’s Fair that famously featured the Atomium.

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"The main forms were wrapped in stainless steel to reﬂect the landscape and create a colorful, shimmering, envelope," explain the architects on their website.

The home is surrounded by extensive gardens and mature trees.

The private estate is located off a country road just over one mile from the historic town center of Godalming, England.

The sprawling property has a strong connection to the outdoors.

Recycled red bricks are used for sections of the exterior walls.

House and art gallery, this private residence is full of special moments of awe and admiration.

At night, the transparent volumes appear like lanterns set atop the limestone plinths.

At night, the exterior sculptures take on a dramatic appearance. The home appears as a sculpture in itself, filled with colorful pieces to admire.

The second guest suite, clad in cedar and aluminum, extends over a horizontal limestone wall.

Dramatic in its horizontal expression, this private residence appears to extend into the landscape via deep overhangs and visual transparency.

After Witthoefft sold the home, it was abandoned for years, accumulating severe damage in the process. When new homeowners sought to rescue the house in 2007 from the wrecking ball, Witthoefft reassured them that the damage was not irrevocable. "It was built on solid rock, and the welded steel frame wasn’t going anywhere," he said.

Writer Marc Kristal described the house as "a lapidary example of Miesian simplicity: a 25-by-95-foot rectangle, composed of a black exposed-steel frame, front and northern elevations clad largely in white glazed brick, and southern and western exposures enclosed by floor-to-ceiling glass sliders."

Inspired by the color of Strawberry Hedgehog cactus thriving in the front yard of the house, the window wants to be an abstract flower drawing guests toward the front entrance. The wall lights are abstract luminarias of the southwest landscape.

The home presents a narrow facade to the street.

The second floor, which houses Mark’s office, has aluminum-framed windows on three sides and opens to a roof deck.

From the street, a discrete metallic wall features two green steel doors on either side.

Lush landscaping softens the steep driveway that leads to the garage at the base of the house.

The couple’s garden-style townhouse is one of nearly 200 units that Mies van der Rohe designed for Detroit’s middle class after World War II. Zac Cruse Construction assisted with their remodel.

“The project reverses the traditional suburban pattern of a house centered on its site and surrounded by empty space,” says Beer. Instead of a lawn, it has three courtyards behind a brick wall.

Originally conceived as a jewel box that would evoke precious objects and fine woodworking, Architect Natalie Donne envisioned, “a box covered with smooth and black material on the outside and blonde wood on the inside.” Large sheets of lustrous black fibrocement were assembled using fine rivets to form two connecting prisms, complete with large opening glass walls.