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A refined palette of materials – cement rendered walls, honed concrete, steel, aluminium, glass – allude to a simplicity of form and function reminiscent of houses built in the 60’s and create a compelling rhythm of opposites.
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The effect is a juxtaposition of solidity and transparency, light and dark, cool and warm, hard and soft.
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