rada outbuilding stories

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  Montrose Residence, Montrose, Calif.

  A humble backyard garage grows into a flexible, multipurpose accessory structure.

   
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  Studio for a Composer, Spring Prairie, Wis.

  Radically simplified forms and a tightly focused program yield a pure architectural experience.

   
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  Signal Shed, Wallowa County, Ore.

  This outbuilding is a study in simplicity and thrift.

   
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  Tea House, Bethesda, Md.

  This elegant pavilion by David Jameson Architect takes the tea ceremony to a new level.

   
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  writer's studio, ghent, n.y.

  A dark, quiet, enigmatic shape in the woods, this building responds to a very simple program.

   
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  tower house, leander, texas

  Rather than remodel an old one-bedroom cottage as their main house, a Texas couple asked Andersson•Wise Architects to convert it into communal living space and to build this new tower for sleeping quarters adjacen

   
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  the shack at hinkle farm, upper tract, w.v.

  After purchasing 27 acres of land in Upper Tract, W.V., Jeffery Broadhurst, AIA, thought long and hard about what to put there. He ultimately came up with a “shack” that may be a step up from camping but still has arc

   
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  the rolling huts, mazama, wash.

  Tom Kundig, FAIA, likens his six Rolling Huts to “a little Thoreau hut on Walden Pond,” but Henry David Thoreau never had it so sweet.

   
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  pizza porch, dallas

  The site for this northern California house begins in a meadow and continues up a wooded hill. To engage both of these aspects, architect Mark L. Donohue, AIA, divided the copper mesh-covered home into three stepped pavilions that torque to take in variou

   
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  guesthouse and party barn, hico, texas

  “I'd like to have a party there,” said one juror. The others agreed, saying the simple, yet beautifully detailed, space “really sings.” Dan Shipley, FAIA, kept forms basic because he didn't want the addition to upstage the main