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...Up on the rooftop amid the high-tech rigs and “sails” are Bar 33 and the Cigar Merchants – that pair of glass boxes, like miniature California modernist villas, also designed by Tessier....
...This is a Modernist villa with a low-slung roof and sprawling space. The pit is a way of allowing that space to flow through, not letting furniture get in the way. It works....
...His early houses are striking and stripped back; the Yamakawa villa (1977), for instance, a roofed volume almost entirely otherwise open to the elements, is perhaps more terrace than house....
...They have trained their own Stable Diffusion model to create mood boards like this one for a villa Less of a techno-optimist is Adam Greenfield....
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...Villa Necchi Campidoglio Via Mozart 14, 20122 Milan Opening times/entry fee: Wednesday–Sunday, 10am–6pm....
...When Barragán came to build his own house in 1947 it was not, as might be expected of a Modernist villa, in the city’s suburbs but embedded in the working-class neighbourhood of Tacubaya....
...Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea in Finland (1939) featured awnings on its roof terrace as well as myriad other shading devices....
...We might think of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s complex and colourful creations in houses across the US but there was also Miksa Róth, whose windows, screens and domes for the bourgeois villas of Budapest were...
...Developers were looking out towards the edges of the city and at the suburbs with their small semi villas, their modest evocations of the country house....
...Smalley also chooses Villa Saraceno, a grand 1,400 sq m mansion in northern Italy designed by Andrea Palladio in 1550....
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...Lang House, Washington, Connecticut, 1974 Perhaps not given its due in architectural history, the Lang House (1973-74) was a brilliant mash-up of Italian villa and playful Hollywood modern....
...Think of Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa in France (1926-29) or Richard Neutra’s Los Angeles Lovell Health House (1927-29)....
...Prices range from £865,000 for a studio to £9.1mn for a three-bedroom “Sky Villa” between the four chimneys....
...The attics stuffed with draped furniture, the dusty chandeliers and dark corridors have given way to Modernist villas and glass houses....
...That space, centred around the imposing Warwick vase from Hadrian’s villa outside Rome, now looks a little lost....
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...Not a beach book but lovely, perhaps, to flip through in a Mediterranean villa. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...A mid 19th-century semi-detached villa in Holland Park, once a bohemian quarter of wealthy artists, now an ossifying neighbourhood of oligarchs, the house is not that remarkable from the outside....
...Her own house in the Alps coherently blended influences from a peasant cottage, a Japanese tea house and a modernist villa. It is a magical vision, never dogmatic, always willing to adapt....
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