Category: Architecture and Interiors

And you know they all came with asbestos tile flooring throughout.

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⁠In their earliest years together, Marston and Van Pelt⁠ would become renowned for their Arts and Crafts style homes, such as the 1913 Residence of Mr. and Mrs. ⁠Henry Newby, Esq. The home was constructed by John H. Simpson as the first house for the Arroyo Park Corporation’s Arroyo Park tract. By 1915 Henry Newby, a prominent Pasadenan who would serve as president of the First National Bank of Pasadena for 15 years, would purchase the home as his family’s private residence. ⁠
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The home is a prime example of the English-influenced Arts and Crafts style, with a parred down stucco exterior, carved wooden details, a prominent chimney, and a steeply pitched roof. I’m a particular fan of the home’s gracious porches on either side of the ground floor, which allow increased access to the out of doors. ⁠
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The home’s ground floor plan is arranged around a central stair and entry hall, with the living room and library to the left and dining room, breakfast room, and service spaces to the right. I appreciate how the living room’s fireplace is located within a generously sized inglenook and how the dining room’s fireplace is delightfully off center, forwarding the home’s charming Arts and Crafts air.The upstairs includes four bedrooms, a boudoir and two bathrooms in addition to the staff quarters. ⁠
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Located at 1015 Prospect Boulevard, the home is extant and has been well maintained. ⁠
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Project: Residence of Mr. and Mrs. ⁠Henry Newby, Esq., 1913⁠
Architect: Marston and Van Pelt⁠
Location: Pasadena, California⁠
Source: ⁠The American Architect⁠, Google Maps

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3d Printed Concrete House.

I don’t like that you have to walk through the entire house to get from the bedroom to the bath. I’m sure there was some logic as to why they put it there, but it escapes me.

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No details other than it’s owned by some dude in Belgium.

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All. Those. Corners.

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Yes, please. Any of them.

That last one especially gives me the feels. It resembles the very first dream home I drew up as a pre-teen.

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Beautiful.

I can smell these pictures. Over the course of my life I’ve spent enough time in homes of this vintage to recall that very specific smell produced by wood, old plaster, and time…and it’s wonderful.

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I’d get rid of the basement and throw it under the stairs. Looks like there would be [barely] enough headroom there.

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As I said, I love houses with atriums…

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Located in West Hollywood the Olga & Llloyd Wright House & Studio designed by Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright’s eldest son) in 1926. Designed in the Mayan Revival style the home is a signature example of Lloyd Wright’s architectural vocabulary, blending Art Deco with pre‑Columbian motifs. The home was added to the US National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and was restored by Lloyd Wright’s son architect Eric Lloyd Wright in the 1990’s.

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I like it…althought I’d like to see some interior shots.

Casa Tupin in Brasília has no windows, at least not in the traditional sense, Coral-coloured brick screens wrap the entire house, filtering light, blocking heat, and letting air move freely in every direction. the house sits on 12 pillars so the cerrado can grow beneath it and the lizards and burrowing owls of the Brazilian savanna can roam freely between the garden and the courtyard. From the street it looks closed. inside it opens completely.⁠

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My first thought was what happens to those interiors during a windy thunderstorm? But if you look closely at the pictures (more here) you’ll see that there are actually sliding glass panels inside the brick that can be opened or closed to allow ventilation from the outside. Knowing this, I kind of like the concept, although keeping the place dusted must be a nightmare.

In 1976, architect Tadao Ando designed the Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan. The residence occupies a narrow plot between two traditional wooden row houses. It was built with smooth reinforced concrete and features no street-facing windows.

The design centers on an open-air courtyard that splits the interior into two distinct sections. Residents must walk outside through the rain or cold to move from the kitchen to the bedroom. This intentional choice forces a constant interaction with the natural elements within a crowded urban environment.

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…and get rid the Maid’s Room, pushing the kitchen wall to line up with the Maid’s Room.. I’d then turn the Maid’s Room into a Den/Office.  I’d also turn the Mud Room into a laundry and close off its access to the Maid’s Room bath.  I’d then turn that bath into a half bath accessible from the Den/Office.

I would’ve definitely turned that upstairs Den into an en suite for the Master…

 

 

Not one, but two Maid’s Rooms!

But I like it. One question, however: who has a lot in a metropolitan area that can accommodate a house of that width?

As I’ve written before, when I was a wee thing I used to pour over my dad’s architectural plan books, and houses like this used to—and continue to—fire my imagination.

…gives me Ghosts vibes.