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Their True North

memories of loving a building was when he was nine years old and saw the Alfred Hitchcock thriller for the first time. The massive limestone-and-wood walls and cantilevering steel beams of the movie’s focal house, supposedly on top of Mount Rushmore, excited him. “It was so modern and daring, yet fit into this mountainous context. I was and still am so disappointed that it doesn’t actually exist.”

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