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EXTERIOR

Slim concrete pilotis create a colonnade along the front of the house, with one section sitting in a water channel, which joins to the wedge-shaped infinity pool.

VERANDAS

The two levels are connected with a galvanised iron spiral staircase. The rails and staircase have been left in their raw state. ‘That’s the way it should be,’ says owner Silvio. ‘Why put paint on a good material?’

the property at the end of architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens’ Johannesburg street had been

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