HERE ARE HOUSES IN BEAUTIFUL SETTINGS THAT TRY TO DISAPPEAR into the landscape. Others like to perch on a prominent spot and lord over all they survey. This one — a holiday home on a big semi-rural plot on the side of the Steenberg mountains in Cape Town — does neither. Its weighty walls and solid masses seem to emerge from the ground and assert themselves unapologetically on the mountainside, yet the indigenous gardens around its edges blend with, but somehow doesn't seem like an imposition.
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Sep 30, 2022
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