SUNKEN HOUSE

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ARCHITECT : DAVID ADJAYE
LOCATION : LONDON

 For photographer Ed Reeve, building his own house had been a lifelong dream. When he met architect David Adjaye, and found the perfect plot of land in London’s De Beauvoir Town, Reeve knew his time had come. The Sunken House, so-named for its excavated site, is a dark, cedar-clad cube in a stuffy part of town, where weathered brick and clay chimney pots are more common than modernist angles.














SOURCE : dwell.com

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