The Trick Garage & Wacky Windows

The Pugh + Scarpa Vail Grant Residence is old school in terms of architecture, but I’m not so sure I’ve ever talked about it here. I really like this offbeat house, but every time I see this shot…

All I can think is that I hope no one accidentally tries to drive into that garage looking wall. This house was not actually planned as a kook, the design was necessary to cover some annoying zoning issues which worked really well in the end. The other side, that you’re not seeing in this image above has the most amazing lake views and the long interior is very cool as well.

One of my favorite things about this house are the pre-building plans (see them here). You know how sometimes it’s hard to really see what’s to come from renderings or models? Well, with this house I like the plans as much as the finished product. They’re very cool.

A visit to Pugh + Scarpa is always fun – you should head over. They’ve got some really strange (but neat) sustainable designs going on right now.

[image via Pugh + Scarpa]

PS up very soon the final review round up of the HGTV software; which I would have done sooner (sorry) but I had a little family emergency (nothing big).