Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Cape Cod Magazine, Design Award
Description
Vacation house
Site
Bluff overlooking Cape Cod Bay
Design
This modern synthesis of Shingle Style and Arts and Crafts architecture gains interest from the way it bends and meanders to follow the contours of the land. The angled wings dynamically shift and overlap.
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