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The 1977 original plan showed 55 houses, but not all of them were built. [6] There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other. As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours ...
The house is furnished with many contemporary works of art belonging to Lord Rothschild. The long rectangular structure is designed with an unusual stepped roof which rises from the ground to the building's full height, creating wedge-shaped side elevations. The plan is long and thin, in places only one room wide.
The plan is a 50-foot (15 m) octagon, with a 4-foot-8-inch (1.42 m) veranda all round at first- and second-floor levels. The house is built on 17-inch-thick (430 mm) stone foundations, with external walls of brickwork 13 inches (330 mm) thick.
This easygoing directness is repeated in the interior blueprint. “I wouldn’t call it an open floor plan, but there is a loose connectivity from room to room,” says Brandon.It was Mallory’s ...
The interior of the dependencies have more vernacular designs, with simple floor plans that reflect a typical small house of the Delaware Valley. During the period of construction, the original 18-foot-square (5.5 m) plan of the west dependency was altered to extend the building by 9 feet (2.7 m) with a large chimney to accommodate a cooking ...
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).