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Based in Vancouver, this enthusiastic firm creates beautifully romantic buildings with a distinct West Coast Style. This is a unique architecture considerate of climate, topography, light, view and vegetation, as well as history and mythology.'

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House and House Architects

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Published 1 January 1999
Details of the house designs by House + House Architects of USA.

Pizzinini - Luxembourg

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Published 1 January 1999
The living spaces created by this versatile partnership play inventive variations on 2 interrelated them es - the layering of space to create the illusion of large v olumes, and the use of primary colours to animate simple for ms. '

Houses of Architects

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Published 1 January 1999
The 18 houses featured are all in Thailand and are designed to accommodate three generations together in keeping with the Thai tradition of the extended family.

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Hugh Newell Jacobsen

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Published 1 January 1999

Edward Niles

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Published 1 January 1999
Building on the Southern California tradition of steel and glass pavilions (Craig Ellwood, Rafael Soriano and Pierre Koenig), Niles creates elegant, airy structures that expand like soap bubbles to absorb and reflect vistas of oceans and mountains. Most exploit the spectacular views and benign climate of Malibu.

Raymond Kappe

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Published 1 January 1999
Over the past four decades, Kappe has created a succession of powerful, 'woodsy' post-and-beam houses on hillside sites in West Los Angeles, inspired by Japanese and Craftsman traditions. The seed was his own studio/house, in which massive fir beams span and leap beyond six concrete towers that burrow down to bedrock.